US Patent Issued to AISIN on May 12 for "Parking lock device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,757, issued on May 12, was assigned to AISIN Corp..

"Parking lock device" was invented by Koichi Asano (Kariya, Japan), Masahiro Tsuruta (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiro Tominaga (Kariya, Japan) and Motoki Ogata (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking lock device includes: an electric motor; and a mechanism including a lock member configured to detachably engage with a parking gear and operate based on output from the electric motor. The mechanism includes a first mechanism part configured to switch a state of the parking gear between a locked state and an unlocked state by moving the lock member based on output from the elec...