US Patent Issued to TAKEUCHI on June 30 for "Structure for preventing intrusion of rainwater into engine room and working vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,119, issued on June 30, was assigned to TAKEUCHI MFG. Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Structure for preventing intrusion of rainwater into engine room and working vehicle" was invented by Satoshi Ishizaka (Nagano, Japan), Yohei Hayashi (Nagano, Japan), Shingo Takeuchi (Nagano, Japan) and Naoyuki Matsui (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure for preventing intrusion of rainwater into an engine room includes: an air intake cover that is fixed to an engine cover having an inclined portion where a height gradually lowers from a cabin side to a rear door side; a first rainwater gutter that is disposed below an air intake opening p...