ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,088, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JATCO Ltd (Fuji, Japan) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Hydraulic circuit" was invented by Koshiro Sugiyama (Isehara, Japan), Takurou Kawasumi (Ebina, Japan), Yoshihisa Kodama (Sagamihara, Japan), Daisuke Yanagawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Kenji Sakakibara (Sagamihara, Japan), Kenji Kojima (Atsugi, Japan) and Sorami Minamizawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic circuit including: a torque converter control valve, and a lock-up control valve, in which the lock-up control valve includes a valve body that is displaceable in an axial direction, an actuator that causes the va...