ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,182, issued on July 21, 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 includes a hydraulic pump that discharges a working fluid; a travel system hydraulic circuit that is connected to a first passage branching from a pump passage connected to the hydraulic pump and controls a flow of the working fluid to a travel motor; a loading system hydraulic circuit that is connected to a second passage branching from the pump passage and controls a flow of the working fluid to a loading...