US Patent Issued to JATCO on March 17 for "Oil accumulation portion in a cover member of a drive device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,012, issued on March 17, was assigned to JATCO Ltd (Fuji City, Japan).

"Oil accumulation portion in a cover member of a drive device" was invented by Shota Oikawa (Fuji City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes: a motor; a gear device disposed on one side of the motor and including a first lubricated member; an oil accumulation portion provided on the other side of the motor; a second lubricated member provided in the oil accumulation portion; and a communication passage configured to allows gear device side to communicate with the oil accumulation portion, in which the communication passage is provided above resp...