US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 15 for "Rotary swash plate hydraulic pump" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,037, issued on Sept. 15, 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), Hideki Tamashima (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 disposed in the casing so as to prevent relative rotation of the cylinder block and including a plurality of cylinder bores that are open on one end surface of the cylinder block; a rotary swash plate rotatably housed in the casing so as to face the one end surface of the cylinder...