US Patent Issued to NTN on Jan. 13 for "Method for gripping constant-velocity universal joint component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,831, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NTN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for gripping constant-velocity universal joint component" was invented by Daigo Nishiya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tsukasa Iijima (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gripping method including: a phase matching step of matching tool relief grooves of a contact metal member and track grooves of a constant velocity universal joint component with each other in phase; a measuring step of measuring phase differences between the track grooves of the constant velocity universal joint component and a female spline of the constant velocity universal ...