ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,949, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Ring member" was invented by Keita Oda (Amagasaki, Japan), Yuito Komaru (Amagasaki, Japan) and Ryunosuke Tanaka (Amagasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ring member includes a split body having a split part split at a point in the circumferential direction and also includes a tapping screw that connects a first thin-walled portion and a second thin-walled portion forming the split part, which extend in the circumferential direction, in a state where the first thin-walled portion and the second thin-walled portion overlap one another in the radial directio...