ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,467, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Rotary swash plate hydraulic pump" was invented by Shinji Nishida (Kobe, Japan), Isamu Yoshimura (Kobe, Japan) and Satoru Takao (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This rotary swash plate hydraulic pump includes: a casing; a cylinder block that is disposed in the casing so as to prevent relative rotation of the cylinder block and including a plurality of cylinder bores; a plurality of pistons each of which is inserted into a corresponding one of the plurality of cylinder bores; and a rotary swash plate that is housed in the casing so as to be rota...