US Patent Issued to NTN, KEEPER on Aug. 11 for "Flexible boot for constant velocity universal joint and constant velocity universal joint" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,153, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NTN Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and KEEPER Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Flexible boot for constant velocity universal joint and constant velocity universal joint" was invented by Mika Kohara (Shizuoka, Japan), Sho Takeshita (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroshi Murakami (Shizuoka, Japan), Shuichi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Rina Ozawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kouji Masujima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible boot for a constant velocity universal joint includes: attachment portions to a mating member at both ends; and a bent portion provided between the attachment portions and absorbing deformat...