ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,551, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Gear structure" was invented by Yusuke Morimoto (Susono, Japan), Takahiro Yokokawa (Susono, Japan), Yoshio Ueno (Izunokuni, Japan) and Hiroyuki Amano (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear structure of a vehicle, which is rotatably provided on a first gear meshing with each other in a rotational direction, and rotates by being pressed by a tooth flank of a second gear when meshed with the second gear, and a sliding member which is connected to the pivoting member so as to be movable in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of the ...