ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,136, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle power transmission apparatus" was invented by Shintaro Hotta (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Masaki Amakawa (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle power transmission apparatus including: (i) a flywheel provided with a center hole in which an end portion of a crankshaft of an engine is inserted such that an outer circumferential surface of the end portion of the crankshaft is fitted in a fitting portion of the center hole; (ii) an input shaft to which a power of the engine is transmitted through the flywheel...