ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,760, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Hydraulic drive apparatus" was invented by Masahiro Ohira (Kobe, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Tode (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic drive apparatus includes a hydraulic pump that discharges a working fluid; a flow dividing valve that divides a pump passage connected to the hydraulic pump into first and second passages, and changes an opening degree of each passage according to a signal that is input to the flow dividing valve; a travel system hydraulic circuit that is connected to the first passage and controls a flow of the working fluid to ...