ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,873, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Work vehicle" was invented by Kentaro Sugimura (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work vehicle includes an electric drive source, and a vehicle main body part to which a traveling part is provided. The vehicle main body part includes: a loading part that extends in a first direction and that can operate with respect to the vehicle main body part; and a removable battery storage unit that extends in a second direction which is the reverse direction of the first direction. The loading part loads an object to be loaded. The removable battery storage unit i...