ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,092, issued on July 29, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Steering device" was invented by Yoshihiro Oono (Katsuragi, Japan), Yasuyuki Nozawa (Kashihara, Japan), Ryoichi Tokioka (Kashiba, Japan) and Kunihiro Oka (Kashihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering device includes a movable body that rotatably supports a shaft member to which a steering member is attached, and first and second rail mechanisms that guide movement of the movable body in a front-rear direction. The first rail mechanism has a first rolling element row that is disposed between a first raceway face of a first fixed rail and a second racew...