US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 25 for "Lubrication structure of power transmission device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,037, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Lubrication structure of power transmission device" was invented by Moe Watanabe (Tokyo), Yoshihito Kurizuka (Tokyo) and Kazuaki Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On a partition wall splitting the interior of a case into a gear chamber and a motor chamber, a through hole and a gutter member are provided. The through hole is provided for communication between the gear chamber and the motor chamber. The gutter member extends into the gear chamber below the through hole, and a tip end part thereof is provided above an oil storage part. Oil guided from ...