ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,926, issued on March 3, was assigned to JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Power transmission device" was invented by Katsunori Yamashita (Chigasaki, Japan), Masayasu Kinoshita (Hadano, Japan), Masahiro Kouya (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Tomoo Ikeda (Isesaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission device includes a case, a control valve, and an electric pump. The case has a first chamber that accommodates a power transmission mechanism, and a second chamber in which the control valve is arranged upright, with pressure regulating valves being aligned in a vertical direction. An axis of r...