US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on May 27 for "Stop system for engine of work machine, and stop method for engine of work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,016, issued on May 27, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Stop system for engine of work machine, and stop method for engine of work machine" was invented by Hayato Matsumoto (Tokyo), Shunsuke Sugimura (Tokyo), Takehiro Shibata (Tokyo), Tomofumi Hokari (Tokyo), Yuichiro Yasuda (Tokyo), Kenji Nozaki (Tokyo), Tomotaka Komatsu (Tokyo), Yosuke Yamagoe (Tokyo), Ryohei Kikuzawa (Tokyo) and Kengo Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stop system for an engine of a work machine includes an engine stop control unit and an engine stop control suspension unit. The engine stop control unit, in a case in which there is a stop instr...