US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on April 29 for "Saddle riding vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,188, issued on April 29, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Saddle riding vehicle" was invented by Shusei Ueno (Hyogo, Japan), Shinji Ikeda (Hyogo, Japan), Mitsuru Kobayashi (Hyogo, Japan), Tomoya Sugiyama (Hyogo, Japan), Takumi Uemoto (Hyogo, Japan) and Masaya Ohta (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A saddle riding vehicle includes: a motor which is a driving power source; a battery which powers the motor; a duct which supplies incoming wind to the battery; and a rear fender which is disposed above a rear wheel and houses the battery. The rear fender includes, behind the battery, a discharge hole which di...