US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on March 18 for "System and method for controlling power transmission mechanism, and utility vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,167, issued on March 18, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"System and method for controlling power transmission mechanism, and utility vehicle" was invented by Masahiro Mizuno (Kobe, Japan) and Shohei Mizuishi (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a power transmission mechanism having a rotation shaft, a power transmission gear, a dog ring, a dog clutch, a switching mechanism to move the dog ring in an axial direction to switch a power transmission state, and a switching controller to control an operation of the switching mechanism. The switching controller determines whether the dog clu...