US Patent Issued to TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN on April 21 for "Cam clutch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,237, issued on April 21, was assigned to TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN Co. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cam clutch" was invented by Tsubasa Sugiya (Osaka, Japan) and Eiichi Nakagawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a cam clutch that has a simple configuration and is capable of preventing a cam posture changing portion from being strongly sandwiched between a cam, an outer ring and an inner ring, and of tilting a cam efficiently without causing deformation of the cam posture changing portion and the cam themselves. A cam clutch includes an operation mode switching mechanism, wherein the operation mode switching mechanism includes a ca...