ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,842, issued on April 7, was assigned to JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Power transmission device" was invented by Katsunori Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirohisa Yukawa (Tokyo), Masahiro Kouya (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Otaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tahei Toyoshima (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission device for a vehicle includes a housing that accommodates a power transmission mechanism, a partition section that supports the power transmission mechanism and divides an interior of the housing, a strainer arranged at a bottom of the housing, and a pump supported by t...