US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on July 8 for "Dump truck" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,193, issued on July 8, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Dump truck" was invented by Yuta Hoshino (Tokyo) and Hidetoshi Namai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dump truck includes an engine, a cab floor disposed above the engine and configured to support a cab, a first aftertreatment device configured to treat exhaust gas discharged from a first exhaust pipe of the engine, and a second aftertreatment device configured to treat exhaust gas discharged from a second exhaust pipe of the engine. The first aftertreatment device and the second aftertreatment device are disposed side by side in a vehicle width direction behind the ...