ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,630, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Hydraulic clutch, travel power transmission device, and work vehicle" was invented by Atsushi Jinnai (Sakai, Japan), Tomonari Tsuchida (Sakai, Japan), Ryoma Iwase (Sakai, Japan), Tomoyuki Tanaka (Sakai, Japan), Yoshiki Fujiyama (Sakai, Japan) and Koki Date (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic clutch includes friction plates to transmit motive power, a piston movable between (i) a pressing position, at which the piston presses the friction plates for the hydraulic clutch to be engaged to transmit motive power, and (ii) a separated position, at ...