ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,672, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).
"Work machine" was invented by Masahiro Ikeda (Tokyo), Kazuya Imamura (Tokyo), Takaaki Mizokami (Tokyo), Naotsuna Matsuda (Tokyo), Takeshi Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Naoya Ando (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine includes: a partition member provided with an intake port and an exhaust port and forming an engine room; an engine disposed in the engine room; a cooling fan disposed on an intake port side of the engine in the engine room; an exhaust pipe discharging exhaust gas from the engine; and an exhaust duct disposed in the engine room and having an inflow port...