US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 8 for "Hydraulic system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,700, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Hydraulic system" was invented by Akihiro Kondo (Kobe, Japan), Yoshifuru Okada (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroyasu Kodera (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic system includes a hydraulic device and a determination device. The hydraulic device includes a casing, a cylinder block including first detected portions and one or more second detected portions on the outer peripheral surface of a cylinder block body, a piston, a linkage mechanism, and a sensor that is provided at a position corresponding to each of the detected portions. When the detected ...