ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,753, issued on March 3, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).
"Construction machine" was invented by Kouji Kishida (Akashi, Japan), Kazumasa Matsumura (Akashi, Japan) and Shinichi Nishiyama (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a construction machine capable of preventing damages of batteries placed on a machine-body frame. A construction machine comprises a machine-body frame, a supporting plate installed on the machine-body frame via elastic mounts, and batteries fixed to a topside of the supporting plate. Welding is not performed on the supporting plate."
The patent was filed on Nov. 12, 2020, under Applicat...