ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,747, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Power transmission device" was invented by Takashi Wakui (Saitama, Japan), Motoshi Togasaki (Saitama, Japan), Masahiro Imai (Saitama, Japan) and Kazuki Sakurai (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission device includes: a planetary gear mechanism; and a case accommodating the planetary gear mechanism, in which the planetary gear mechanism includes an input shaft, a sun gear, a plurality of planetary gears, a planetary carrier, and a ring gear, the sun gear is an external gear provided on the input shaft, a gear member is attached to one end...