US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 22 for "Inspection apparatus and inspection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,701, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus and inspection method" was invented by Yasuhito Takei (Wako, Japan), Tsutomu Kamiyamaguchi (Wako, Japan) and Shuji Kawano (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus is configured to inspect damage on gears in a transmission that transmits a torque generated by a motor mounted as a drive source of a vehicle. The inspection apparatus comprising: a sensor configured to detect an AE signal in a meshing state of the gears; and a processor configured to determine presence or absence of occurrence of damage in the meshing s...