US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS, KOITO MANUFACTURING on Sept. 29 for "Saddle-riding vehicle and headlamp unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,995, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan) and KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Saddle-riding vehicle and headlamp unit" was invented by Kazuhito Tawara (Akashi, Japan), Juichi Oyanagi (Akashi, Japan), Naoya Shimomura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Toru Kurebayashi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A saddle-riding vehicle includes a saddle-riding vehicle body and a headlamp unit supported by the vehicle body. The headlamp unit includes: a lamp housing with a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to a front-back direction getting smaller toward a front side; a projector type lamp housed in ...