US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "Air wipe timed base station for driveshafts" (Kentucky Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,875, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Air wipe timed base station for driveshafts" was invented by Michael D. Watson (Ewing, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for a base station to house an air wipe device. Certain embodiments of the base station may include a plunger that activates a pneumatic timer when depressed to compress an accompanying spring. The base station may be formed to optimize the process of removing particles from a driveshaft spline."

The patent was filed on April 18, 2022, un...