ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,243, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Bending meshing type gear device" was invented by Mitsuhiro Tamura (Yokosuka, Japan) and Masahiro Watanabe (Yokosuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bending meshing type gear device includes a wave generator, a bending gear that is bent and deformed by the wave generator, and a meshing gear that meshes with the bending gear, in which the meshing gear is formed of a first resin having a glass transition point lower than about 140deg C., the bending gear is formed of a first high thermal conductivity material having higher thermal conductivity than t...