ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,891, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Power transmission device" was invented by Katsunori Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayasu Kinoshita (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuaki Yumoto (Tokyo), Tsutomu Itou (Shizuoka, Japan), Satoshi Wakatsuki (Novi, Mich.) and Kazuya Numata (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, and a control valve configured to control a pressure of oil supplied to the power transmission mechanism. The power transmission mechanism includes ...