US Patent Issued to JATCO on Aug. 18 for "Power transmission device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,092, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to JATCO Ltd (Fuji City, Japan).

"Power transmission device" was invented by Kazutoshi Shimozono (Yokohama, Japan) and Minoru Shoichi (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes: a first planetary gear mechanism including a first sun gear connected to an input shaft, a first carrier connected to an output shaft, and a first ring gear; and a second planetary gear mechanism including a second sun gear connected to the input shaft, a second carrier connected to a first fixed element via a first engagement element, and a second ring gear connected to a second fixed element via a...