US Patent Issued to JTEKT, NAKANISHI METAL WORKS on Nov. 25 for "Pulley with two flanges, and method of producing pulley with two flanges" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,569, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and NAKANISHI METAL WORKS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pulley with two flanges, and method of producing pulley with two flanges" was invented by Ayumi Yamamori (Kariya, Japan), Shuhei Yamashita (Kariya, Japan), Masayoshi Nakamura (Osaka, Japan) and Ryotaro Taniguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulley body has a first flange and a fitting protrusion. The flange body has a second flange and a fitting recess fitted to the fitting protrusion. The fitting recess has an inner surface including, in a radially inward direction, a first inclined surface incline...