US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Dec. 2 for "Traveling unit, work machine, track shoe plate, and crawler belt" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,978, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Traveling unit, work machine, track shoe plate, and crawler belt" was invented by Tatsuya Yoshibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crawler belt is wound around a sprocket and an idler and includes a plurality of track shoe plates. Each track shoe plate has an attachment surface and a ground engaging surface. The track shoe plate has projecting sections on the ground engaging surface. Side surfaces of the projecting sections are each inclined relative to a perpendicular line perpendicular to the attachment surface at an angle greater than a winding angle of the trac...