ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,205, issued on July 21, was assigned to TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN Co. (Osaka, Japan).
"Cam clutch" was invented by Ryota Mase (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cam clutch (100) according to the present invention is configured such that cams (180) that are brought into a non-contact state with any one of or both an inner ring (110) and an outer ring (120) in a neutral posture and are configured to be able to be engaged with the inner ring (110) and the outer ring (120) irrespective of the cams leaning in either of a forward or backward direction are held by a fixed cage (130) and a movable cage (150) that is disposed to be relati...