ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,605, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Nabtesco Corp. (Tokyo).
"Hydraulic pump with swash plate tilt control" was invented by Toshiya Akami (Gifu-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic pump that allows a drive source to be started with a small torque includes a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores and disposed so as to be rotatable. Pistons are each movably retained in an associated one of the cylinder bores. A swash plate controls the amount of movement of the pistons in accordance with the size of the tilt angle. A first pressing unit is configured for pressing the swash plate in such a direction as to ...