US Patent Issued to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Jan. 20 for "Parking brake device and work machine equipped with the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,673, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Parking brake device and work machine equipped with the same" was invented by Hitoshi Sakurai (Hyogo, Japan), Shintaro Sasai (Hyogo, Japan) and Kenichi Terauchi (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a parking brake apparatus installable on a work machine. The parking brake apparatus includes: a parking brake switchable between a braking state of braking the turning of an upper turning body and a braking release state; a brake operation device to which a braking operation and a braking release operation for switc...