US Patent Issued to Kubota on July 21 for "Utility vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,224, issued on July 21, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Utility vehicle" was invented by Toshiki Ono (Sakai, Japan) and Kazuyuki Tashiro (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A utility vehicle includes an engine E provided for a body of the utility vehicle; an exhaust section 8 configured to discharge exhaust gas from the engine E; a belt-type continuously variable transmission device 31 configured to receive driving force from the engine E; an exhaust port 40 configured to discharge, from the belt-type continuously variable transmission device 31, cooling air drawn into the belt-type continuously variable transm...