ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,422, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Clutch system" was invented by Yuu Yaguchi (Tochigi, Japan), Takahiro Nagaoka (Tochigi, Japan), Ryuya Saito (Tochigi, Japan) and Kazutaka Kawata (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a clutch is provided with: an action member rotatable about an axis; a motor drivingly connected to the action member to impart a rotational motion about the axis to the action member; a conversion mechanism drivingly connected to the action member to convert the rotational motion about the axis into an axial motion; a clutch member...