US Patent Issued to Kubota on July 14 for "Electric work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,224, issued on July 14, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electric work vehicle" was invented by Hirokazu Ito (Sakai, Japan) and Kentaro Habu (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work vehicle includes a travel device; a first electric motor configured to drive the travel device; a second electric motor configured to drive a pump; a battery configured to supply electric power to the first electric motor; a charging determination section configured to determine whether or not charging of the battery is needed; and a control device configured to control the first electric motor. The control device include...