US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 11 for "Riding electric work machine with swing arm traction" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,093, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Riding electric work machine with swing arm traction" was invented by Nathaniel Artemis Lenfert (Graham, N.C.), Travis Barkey (Greensboro, N.C.), Christopher W. Vaughn (Mebane, N.C.) and Scott J. Kaskawitz (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A riding-type electric work machine including a vehicle body frame, an electrically driven operating unit, a swing arm swingably supported by the vehicle body frame, a traction motor held by the swing arm, a battery and a suspension coupled to the swing arm. The swing arm includes a housing base enclosing the tr...