US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on April 7 for "Crawler-type work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,991, issued on April 7, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Crawler-type work machine" was invented by Takeshi Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Hiroaki Takeshima (Tokyo), Naoya Akiyama (Tokyo), Kazushi Nakata (Tokyo), Osamu Yatsuda (Tokyo), Shinichi Otaka (Tokyo), Yuji Nameki (Tokyo), Ryouichi Nagasaka (Tokyo) and Takaomi Komura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller provided in a bulldozer maintains the engagement of an inside steering clutch over a predetermined period beginning from a switching start point at which switching starts, when switching from a slow turn mode to a pivot turn mode, and when switching from the pivot turn ...