US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on June 30 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,171, issued on June 30, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Yuki Nakamura (Akashi, Japan), Shoya Yamamoto (Akashi, Japan) and Takahiro Jyouzaki (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including an engine, an air-cooled CVT to which driving force output from the engine is input, a transmission to which the driving force from the engine is transmitted via the CVT, an exhaust pipe connected to the engine and adjacent to the transmission at an interval in a horizontal direction, and a CVT exhaust duct connected to the CVT and including a discharge port through which air inside th...