US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 28 for "Wheel and manufacturing method of wheel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,149, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Wheel and manufacturing method of wheel" was invented by Tetsuya Ozawa (Saitama, Japan), Kanji Matsumoto (Saitama, Japan), Keiya Hoshino (Saitama, Japan) and Tsutomu Shimojima (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a wheel for an omnidirectional moving device which takes fewer man-hours for manufacturing, and a manufacturing method of the wheel for an omnidirectional moving device which takes fewer man-hours. The wheel includes an annular core body 36; a plurality of bearings 75 each including an inner ring 76 and an outer ring 77 r...