ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,241, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Hydraulic drive device" was invented by Masahiro Ohira (Kobe, Japan), Ryo Kawakami (Kobe, Japan) and Koji Yamasaki (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic drive device drives at least first to third hydraulic devices by supplying a working fluid to the hydraulic devices. The hydraulic drive device includes at least first and second pumps respectively connected to the first and second hydraulic devices, a merge passage that is connected to the pumps and in which streams of the working fluid discharged from the pumps join together, a flow rate...