ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,020, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to National Sun Yat-Sen University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
"Conjugate cam reducer" was invented by Der-Min Tsay (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kun-Lung Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wei-Ming Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Jyun-Ting Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Yuan-Shin Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conjugate cam reducer includes input and output units disposed at two opposite sides of a transmission unit along an output axis. The transmission unit includes input-side and output-side cam discs having first and second grooved surfaces. The input unit includes an input disc having a plurality of ...