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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,244, issued on July 14, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electric work vehicle" was invented by Keita Aoki (Sakai, Japan), Kazuto Okazaki (Sakai, Japan), Daiki Tamba (Sakai, Japan) and Shunya Takase (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work vehicle includes an electric motor to drive a vehicle body to travel, a first battery chargeable by an external power supply to supply driving electric power to the electric motor, a second battery that is rechargeable to supply electric power to an electric component installed in the vehicle body, a voltage converter to supply electric power while adjusting a volt...