US Patent Issued to JTEKT on Jan. 27 for "Constant velocity universal joint and manufacturing method of constant velocity universal joint" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,108, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Constant velocity universal joint and manufacturing method of constant velocity universal joint" was invented by Kaname Onoda (Aichi, Japan) and Koki Watanabe (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inner joint member has, on an opening portion side of an outer joint member, a holding portion that has a bottomed concave shape into which a sleeve for supporting a boot covering the opening portion is press-fitted, and a relief portion that is provided on part of a convex outer spherical surface at the opening portion side, and that has a smaller diameter than...