ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,008, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co. Ltd. (Amagasaki, Japan).
"Hydrostatic transaxle" was invented by Takehiro Ota (Amagasaki, Japan), Michio Tsukamoto (Amagasaki, Japan), Koji Kiyooka (Amagasaki, Japan), Mai Terada (Amagasaki, Japan) and Koji Iwaki (Amagasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrostatic transaxle includes: a casing; a hydraulic continuously variable transmission; and an oil filter that includes a filter body for filtering the hydraulic oil and a filter holding member configured to guide clean oil filtered in the filter body to a suction oil reservoir, in which the filter holdin...