US Patent Issued to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Oct. 7 for "Handrail device and work machine comprising same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,947, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Handrail device and work machine comprising same" was invented by Keiko Inada (Hyogo, Japan), Yasuo Ichikawa (Hyogo, Japan), Tetsuya Kobatake (Hyogo, Japan) and Takuya Watanabe (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a handrail device in first and second unit booms adjacent to each other, having high strength. The handrail device includes: a pair of first poles; a pair of second poles; a first main rope stretched between the pair of first poles; a second safety line stretched between the pair of second poles; a first po...