US Patent Issued to JDC on July 14 for "Piling machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,254, issued on July 14, was assigned to JDC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Piling machine" was invented by Akimitsu Ebihara (Tokyo), Masakazu Sekiguchi (Tokyo), Hidetoshi Morimoto (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Obata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piling machine includes a main body unit including a traveling device, a pile driver that performs piling, and a moving device that is connected to the main body unit and moves the pile driver. A control device performs piling while the traveling device is traveling (e.g., while the main body unit is moving). This reduces the number of times the traveling device stops, and thus, the number of times of accel...