US Patent Issued to SUZUKI MOTOR on June 30 for "Engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,324, issued on June 30, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Engine" was invented by Shinichi Yamada (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Atsushi Sakane (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-cylinder engine includes a cylinder and a cylinder head stacked on an upper portion of a crankcase, and an electronically controlled throttle interposed in an intake passage behind the cylinder head. The vehicle body frame includes a pair of main frames extending rearward from a head pipe, and rear portions of the pair of main frames form a pair of body frames bent downward behind the cylinder head. The electronically con...