US Patent Issued to Mazda Motor on July 8 for "Control system of vehicle including automatic transmission" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,352, issued on July 8, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Control system of vehicle including automatic transmission" was invented by Yuki Tsuchitori (Aki-gun, Japan), Manabu Sasahara (Aki-gun, Japan), Makoto Yamada (Aki-gun, Japan), Masato Ohtani (Aki-gun, Japan) and Shigeru Nagayama (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic transmission control system includes an automatic transmission provided with a first friction engagement element including friction plates, a piston movable between engaged and disengaged positions for engaging and disengaging, respectively, the friction plates, and engaging ...