ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,964, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co. LTD. (Amagasaki, Japan).
"HST and transmission" was invented by Kazuhiro Owada (Amagasaki, Japan), Koji Iwaki (Amagasaki, Japan) and Kengo Sasahara (Amagasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a transmission of the present invention, a transmission case has a peripheral wall with an opening sized to allow an HST to be other than a main plate of the HST. The HST has the main plate and a sub-plate sandwiching members out of a center section, a pump-side holder and a motor-side holder that face to each other with the pump main body and the motor main body being ar...