US Patent Issued to Hitachi Construction Machinery on Sept. 1 for "Construction machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,605, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Construction machine" was invented by Hajime Okano (Nagareyama, Japan), Yuuji Murayama (Tsuchiura, Japan) and Yoshitaka Yanase (Tsuchiura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of control valves (39A to 39D, 40A to 40D, 41A to 41D, 42A to 42D, 43) is aligned and disposed in the right-and-left direction and in the vertical direction on a first mounting surface (38C) and a second mounting surface (38D). Further, a plurality of control valves (47, 48) is aligned and disposed in the right-and-left direction and in the vertical direction o...