US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Sept. 9 for "Vehicle differential and vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,726, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle differential and vehicle" was invented by Nobuyuki Oka (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yuzo Ohkawa (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle differential includes: a pair of side gears arranged in a differential case; a plurality of friction plates arranged on an axially outer side of respective one of the side gears; and a pressing member that holds the plurality of friction plates together with respective one of the side gears. Each of the side gears has: a gear section that meshes with a pinion gear; and a cylindrical section s that ext...