US Patent Issued to Kubota on April 22 for "Flywheel housing and engine equipped with flywheel housing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,684, issued on April 22, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Flywheel housing and engine equipped with flywheel housing" was invented by Mariko Ban (Sakai, Japan), Yuichi Tamaki (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Sato (Sakai, Japan), Masato Ueda (Sakai, Japan) and Noriyoshi Eguchi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flywheel housing 100 includes: a main body portion 110 which is arranged on a side of an engine 1 of a flywheel 20 and which has a housing portion 111 that houses the flywheel 20; and a cover portion 120 which is arranged on an opposite side of the flywheel 20 to the engine 1, and which is connected to the main ...