US Patent Issued to Nabtesco on Aug. 18 for "Lubricant leakage control mechanism and gear mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,096, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nabtesco Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lubricant leakage control mechanism and gear mechanism" was invented by Tetsuya Kito (Tokyo), Masato Uchihara (Tokyo) and Taisuke Ishida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubricant leakage control mechanism of an embodiment includes: an output block body disposed on at least one of two opposing surfaces of an annular gear in the thickness direction adjacent to external teeth of the annular gear in the thickness direction, the block body having an outer circumferential surface around the entire circumference of the gear; a cover provided over the entire circumferen...