US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on Sept. 15 for "Saddle-type vehicle with exhaust pipe catalyst arrangement" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,004, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Akashi, Japan).

"Saddle-type vehicle with exhaust pipe catalyst arrangement" was invented by Kaoru Murakami (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a straddle-type vehicle including: a vehicle body frame including an engine mounting frame; an internal combustion engine having an intake port and an exhaust port; a swing arm extending rearward from the engine mounting frame and having a front end portion pivotally supported by a pivot shaft at a rear portion of the engine mounting frame; a rear wheel connected to a rear end portion of the swing arm; ...