ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,512, issued on Feb. 17, 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) 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, a control valve, a heat exchanger, a first chamber that accommodates the power transmission mechanism, and a second chamber in which the control valve is arranged upright. The housing includes a case, a first cover joined to the case forming the fi...