US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on July 21 for "Electric cylinder and work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,990, issued on July 21, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electric cylinder and work machine" was invented by Hideshi Iitani (Tokyo) and Shouta Akazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric cylinder includes a shaft, a bearing that is provided in an outer circumference of the shaft, and a holder that surrounds the shaft with the bearing therebetween. The holder includes a holder main body opening in an axial direction of the shaft and supporting the shaft with the bearing therebetween, and a trunnion portion having a cylindrical shape protruding outward in a manner of intersecting the axial direction from the holder ...