US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on Aug. 5 for "Utility vehicle and method for controlling utility vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,853, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Utility vehicle and method for controlling utility vehicle" was invented by Junji Chiba (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A utility vehicle includes: a plurality of wheels mounted with low-pressure tires; an output operating element that is operated by a driver and receives an increase/decrease instruction to increase or decrease a driving force; a switching operating element that receives a switching instruction for switching between travel modes; and a controller. The controller has a manual travel mode in which the driving force is controlled i...