ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,293, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).
"Crawler-type work machine" was invented by Takeshi Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Hiroaki Takeshima (Tokyo), Naoya Akiyama (Tokyo), Kazushi Nakata (Tokyo), Osamu Yatsuda (Tokyo), Shinichi Otaka (Tokyo), Yuji Nameki (Tokyo), Ryoichi Nagasaka (Tokyo) and Takaomi Komura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a crawler type work machine, when switching from a pivot turning mode to a straight travel mode or a slow turning mode, a controller is configured to maintain a rotation speed of the turning motor until after a first timing at which the inside steering clutch begins partial engage...