US Patent Issued to JATCO, NISSAN MOTOR on March 4 for "Lubricant guiding structure in automatic transmission" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. RE50,323, issued on March 4, was assigned to JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Lubricant guiding structure in automatic transmission" was invented by Tsutomu Itou (Fujinomiya, Japan), Tou Ou (Numazu, Japan), Shinji Higashide (Fukuroi, Japan) and Yoshiteru Ueno (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a lubricant guiding structure in an automatic transmission in which a baffle plate configured to regulate the movement of a lubricant agitated by a driven sprocket is provided at one side, where an oil pump is located, in the direction of a rotational axis of the driven sprocket. As viewed f...