US Patent Issued to Kubota on Nov. 3 for "Electric work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,015, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electric work vehicle" was invented by Yuki Shimoike (Sakai, Japan), Shinichi Kawabata (Sakai, Japan), Kenji Mitsui (Sakai, Japan), Katsumi Matsufuji (Sakai, Japan), Yoshiki Mizoguchi (Sakai, Japan) and Yuta Inoue (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery includes a housing case accommodating battery modules, a pre-charge portion to perform processing to gradually supply power to an inverter at a start of power supply from the battery to the inverter, and a discharge portion to perform processing to discharge power remaining in the inverter in response t...