US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 24 for "Work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,032, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Work machine" was invented by Takayuki Arakawa (Wako, Japan), Hiroshi Hojo (Wako, Japan), Norikazu Shimizu (Wako, Japan), Sotaro Furuta (Wako, Japan) and Susumu Okubo (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine comprising: a blade; a blade housing; and a guard pole portion provided below the blade, wherein the guard pole portion is supported by the blade housing, and the guard pole portion includes an inclined portion extending in an oblique direction with respect to a machine body longitudinal direction of the work machine."

The patent was filed...