US Patent Issued to Yanmar Holdings on Sept. 22 for "Work machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,305, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Yanmar Holdings Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work machine" was invented by Tatsumasa Wakata (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes an engine having an output shaft projecting to one side in a lateral direction of a machine body, a hydraulic pump disposed on the other side in the lateral direction of the engine, an exhaust gas purification device disposed above the engine and treating exhaust gas discharged from the engine, and an alternator driven by rotational power of the output shaft. The alternator is disposed at a position behind the engine and below the exha...