US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 14 for "Lubrication control apparatus for automatic transmission" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,399, issued on April 14, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Lubrication control apparatus for automatic transmission" was invented by Keitaro Kageyama (Aki-gun, Japan), Manabu Sasahara (Aki-gun, Japan), Tomokazu Kinoshita (Aki-gun, Japan), Shigeyoshi Okunishi (Aki-gun, Japan), Masahiro Miyazaki (Aki-gun, Japan) and Toshiaki Shirasago (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubrication control apparatus for an automatic transmission includes a first lubrication circuit that supplies lubricating oil to a starting frictional engagement element to be engaged when a vehicle starts, a second lubrication circui...