ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,130, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Transmission device" was invented by Kazuma Oyaizu (Toyohashi, Japan) and Ryosuke Asai (Toyohashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission device includes a transmission unit housed inside a transmission case with an oil storing part at a bottom part of the transmission case. As viewed in a projection plane orthogonal to a rotation axis of the transmission unit, an oil capturing part is arranged in a semicircle part of an outer circumferential wall of the transmission case. The semicircle part starts at a deepest part of the oil ...