US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on May 27 for "Transmission and utility vehicle with transmission" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,159, issued on May 27, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Transmission and utility vehicle with transmission" was invented by Kazuho Matsumoto (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission includes an input shaft, an output shaft, a clutch that connects and disconnects power from a drive source input to the input shaft, a plurality of gear trains for gear positions provided between input and output shafts, a plurality of switching valves that switch an oil passage connected to a hydraulic chamber to which hydraulic pressure that brings each of a plurality of the gear trains for gear positions into a ...