US Patent Issued to JATCO on Sept. 9 for "Gear mechanism and method for manufacturing gear mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,858, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan).

"Gear mechanism and method for manufacturing gear mechanism" was invented by Daiki Kamata (Isehara, Japan), Kouji Matsuo (Hadano, Japan), Ryouhei Saitou (Yokohama, Japan) and Kunihiko Fukanoki (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gear mechanism includes a gear shaped to have a bottom land, a first tooth flank connected to the bottom land, a second tooth flank connected to the bottom land, a first tooth face connected to the first tooth flank, and a second tooth face connected to the second tooth flank. The bottom land is curved, a radius of curvature of th...