US Patent Issued to KOMATSU on Sept. 2 for "Treatment device, treatment method, and exhaust gas treatment system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,795, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to KOMATSU LTD. (Tokyo).

"Treatment device, treatment method, and exhaust gas treatment system" was invented by Yoshitoshi Nagado (Tokyo) and Akira Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment device an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an estimated value of a deposition amount of ash deposited on a filter that collects a particulate matter in an exhaust gas of an engine, and information indicating an atmospheric pressure, a calculation unit configured to calculate an allowable ash deposition amount threshold value corresponding to an allowable ash deposition a...