US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 14 for "Rolling compaction vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,227, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rolling compaction vehicle" was invented by Kentaro Sugimura (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body of a rolling compaction vehicle is provided with a battery case and a motor. A removable battery is removably housed in an insertion hole of the battery case. The battery case is in an inclined position. This inclination causes an opening of the insertion hole to face an outer edge of the vehicle body, and causes a wall portion that holds back the removable battery to face the inside of the vehicle body. Here, the lower end of the wall portion is...