US Patent Issued to JATCO, Nissan Motor on Nov. 18 for "Hydraulic circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,933, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Hydraulic circuit" was invented by Masahiro Kusuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hisao Nobu (Tokyo), Yuki Tawara (Shizuoka, Japan), Takahiro Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan), Masanori Satou (Tokyo), Norihiro Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Sakakibara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Yanagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic circuit includes a first oil path, a second oil path, a hydraulic control circuit, a third oil path, a check valve, and a relief va...