US Patent Issued to JTEKT on July 8 for "Gear machining apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,749, issued on July 8, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Gear machining apparatus" was invented by Kento Takeuchi (Kariya, Japan), Hisashi Otani (Anjo, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakano (Tokai, Japan), Shuntaro Takasu (Hekinan, Japan), Yoshitaro Ohsaki (Nukata-gun, Japan), Tetsuro Furuhata (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazunari Ogura (Tsushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a gear machining apparatus capable of correcting a tooth trace error without using a special tool when a hob cutter is cantilever-supported. A gear machining apparatus includes a hob cutter machining a tooth profile on a workpiece, a tool spindle device ro...