US Patent Issued to HOKUETSU INDUSTRIES on March 25 for "Traveling operation device of crawler-type aerial work platform" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,896, issued on March 25, was assigned to HOKUETSU INDUSTRIES Co. LTD. (Niigata, Japan).

"Traveling operation device of crawler-type aerial work platform" was invented by Norihide Ikarashi (Niigata, Japan), Isao Masuda (Niigata, Japan) and Masaki Hiwatashi (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling operation device of a crawler-type aerial work platform including an operation of an enable switch by one hand is provided. An enable switch and a changeover switch are disposed on an operation rod main body at positions where the enable switch and the changeover switch are operable by fingers gripping the operation rod mai...