ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,221, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Clutch device" was invented by Naoya Matsunaga (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch device includes: a clutch outer rotatably journaled on a driving force transmission shaft and having an outer bottom portion formed in an annular shape and an outer cylindrical portion extending in the axial direction from an outer peripheral edge of the outer bottom portion; and a primary driven gear formed in an annular shape, assembled to the clutch outer, and receiving power from a power source. The outer bottom portion has a gear mounting portion inserted inside the pr...