US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on March 18 for "Toroidal continuously variable transmission" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,142, issued on March 18, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Toroidal continuously variable transmission" was invented by Kenji Komatsu (Kobe, Japan), Hideyuki Imai (Kobe, Japan), Kazuhiko Irie (Akashi, Japan), Toru Aibe (Kobe, Japan) and Keigo Maehata (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toroidal continuously variable transmission including at least one containment body covering a target disc that is at least one of an input disc and an output disc. The containment body includes a ring that covers an outer peripheral surface of the target disc so as to be spaced apart from the outer peripheral surface of ...