Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Drive shaft and method for producing drive shaft
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Application No.: US16827749Application Date: 2020-03-24
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Publication No.: US11077709B2Publication Date: 2021-08-03
- Inventor: Mitsuru Kamikawa , Naoto Shibata , Ko Sugai , Masafumi Yamamoto , Takafumi Murakami , Kazuya Kumei , Yutaka Takeuchi , Masaki Kawamura
- Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Amin, Turocy & Watson, LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-064267 20190328
- Main IPC: B60B35/12
- IPC: B60B35/12 ; B23K20/12 ; B60B35/14 ; B23K101/04

Abstract:
A drive shaft is configured by joining solid stub shafts formed of a medium carbon steel to both ends of a hollow tubular body formed of a medium carbon steel. When expressed as grain size number, the grain size of the hollow tubular body at joint parts where the hollow tubular body and the solid stub shafts are joined together ranges from #5 to #9, and the grain size of the solid stub shafts at the joint parts ranges from #10 to #12.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200307312A1 DRIVE SHAFT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING DRIVE SHAFT Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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