ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,701, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Transmission and method for producing transmission" was invented by Toshifumi Yasuda (Sakai, Japan), Jun Yoshida (Sakai, Japan), Yusuke Morita (Sakai, Japan) and Akihiro Takami (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission includes a speed change gearbox including gears configured to be switched by a movement of a shifter having a cam pin in a guide groove and configured to be moved by a movement of the cam pin following the rotation of a shift drum. The guide groove includes a bent section having an inner wall on an inner side that is formed by (i) f...