US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on Feb. 10 for "Propeller shaft and boot protection member of propeller shaft" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,369, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Propeller shaft and boot protection member of propeller shaft" was invented by Tatsuya Shimoda (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Byung Goo Park (Monroe, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propeller shaft PS is provided with a boot protection member 5. The boot protection member 5 is detachable to a first rotation member 1. In this configuration, when the angle variation of a constant velocity joint 3 becomes large, an insertion portion 57 of the boot protection member 5 is interposed between a first cover part 41 and a second cover part 42. Consequently, the ...