US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 8 for "Lubrication mechanism" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,636, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Lubrication mechanism" was invented by Yasuyuki Ichimura (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a lubrication mechanism including a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft includes an external member and an internal member housed inside the external member, the internal member having an internal space extending in an axial direction, a horizontal hole is formed in the internal member, the horizontal hole for communicating between the internal space and an outer peripheral surface of the internal member, the horizontal hole communicates with a lubrication flow p...