US Patent Issued to JATCO, Nissan Motor on Sept. 16 for "Power transmission device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,355, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Power transmission device" was invented by Katsunori Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirohisa Yukawa (Tokyo), Masahiro Kouya (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoo Ikeda (Gunma, Japan), Kenji Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Higashiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuaki Yumoto (Tokyo), Tsutomu Itou (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuya Numata (Kanagawa, Japan), Junnosuke Kawahara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazunori Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission device for a vehicle includes a housing that accommodates a power transmiss...