US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on April 14 for "Off-road vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,226, issued on April 14, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Off-road vehicle" was invented by Kengo Shimatani (Akashi, Japan), Yuki Nakamura (Akashi, Japan) and Kenta Takada (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An off-road vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, an internal combustion engine, a continuously variable transmission, a cabin, an engine intake conduit, a CVT intake conduit, and an intake box. The engine is supported by the vehicle body frame. The transmission is configured to change a speed of a driving force output from the engine. In the cabin, a passenger seat supported by the vehicle body f...