ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,558, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Variable characteristic limited-slip differential" was invented by Yuu Yaguchi (Tochigi, Japan), Takahiro Nagaoka (Tochigi, Japan), Shinichiro Ishikawa (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and Koji Takaira (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential used for distributing input torque, is provided with: a casing to receive the input torque; a differential gear set supported by the casing for differentially distribute the input torque to first and second side gears; a clutch interposed between the casin...