US Patent Issued to Sandvik Mining and Construction on Aug. 25 for "Towing arrangement of a battery-powered mining machine and a battery-powered mining machine" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,254, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Towing arrangement of a battery-powered mining machine and a battery-powered mining machine" was invented by Sami Haikio (Tampere, Finland), Ilkka Hyvonen (Tampere, Finland) and Esko Laihonen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A towing arrangement for a battery-powered mining machine. The battery machine includes a machine side and a battery unit connected removably to the machine side. The towing arrangement includes a hydraulic cylinder arranged to the machine side to release the brakes of the mining machine when activated,...