ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,757, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Power transmission mechanism" was invented by Kazuto Okazaki (Sakai, Japan) and Sumio Yagyu (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission mechanism includes an engine including a crankshaft, a flywheel connected to the crankshaft, an electric motor including a rotor to rotate together with a rotary shaft, a damper connected to the rotary shaft and the flywheel, and a driven machine to receive power from the engine and/or the electric motor. The damper is located between the engine and the electric motor in an axial direction of the rotary shaft."...