US Patent Issued to NIPPON THOMPSON on Sept. 1 for "Speed reducer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,639, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NIPPON THOMPSON Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Speed reducer" was invented by Satoshi Sasaki (Mino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speed reducer includes: an input unit including an input shaft and first bearing including eccentric first inner ring rotating together with the input shaft; cycloid gear; multiple inner pins, inner pin holder holding end portions of the inner pins in the axial directions and surrounding the input unit outer peripheral surface; second bearing radially outward of the cycloid gear and including a second inner ring as an output shaft, second outer ring radially outward of ...