US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on June 2 for "Portable hydraulic park brake release apparatus and method for work vehicle" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,517, issued on June 2, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Portable hydraulic park brake release apparatus and method for work vehicle" was invented by William Waller Carson IV (Independence, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a work vehicle includes an emergency portable hydraulic park brake release assembly for a spring applied, hydraulically released park brake. The portable hydraulic park brake release assembly includes a CO2 cartridge which is activated when the park brake is in the applied position. This causes gas from the CO2 cartridge to be introduced into a hydraulic conduit of the park brake to...