US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 31 for "Battery latching mechanism for power equipment, and lawnmower" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,586, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Battery latching mechanism for power equipment, and lawnmower" was invented by Shivang Desai (Carrboro, N.C.), Christopher Todd Walker (Hillsborough, N.C.) and Surender Kumar (Mebane, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical motion battery latching mechanism for a power equipment having a removable battery can include a central lever, a latch button and a vertically pushed button. The central lever can be configured to rotate about an axis. The latch button can be vertically movable by rotation of the central lever and configured to selectively secure and ...