ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,384, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NTN EUROPE (Annecy, France).
"One-piece recirculation part, recirculation threaded member and ballscrew mechanism" was invented by Julien Berthier (Saint-Jorioz, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A one-piece recirculation part intended to be housed in a cavity of a threaded member of a ballscrew mechanism comprises a bottom, facing in a reference direction of a reference axis, a recirculation path facing in the opposite direction and designed to pass through a thread of the threaded member, and at least one deflector, projecting from the recirculation path in the opposite direction to the r...