ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,467, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NSK STEERING & CONTROL INC. (Tokyo).
"Gear housing and electric assist device" was invented by Hansol Kim (Maebashi, Japan), Yoshifumi Kurokawa (Maebashi, Japan) and Kittipon Roongvashira (Maebashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gear housing including a wheel housing section, a worm housing section, and a one side rib that protrudes from a side surface on one side in the axial direction of a bottom portion for wheel of the wheel housing section and connects a fitting tubular portion for wheel of the wheel housing section and a fitting tubular portion for worm on one side in the axial...