ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,893, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Industrial hybrid engine" was invented by Masayasu Takami (Sakai, Japan), Kentaro Kita (Sakai, Japan) and Kazuaki Koyama (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on further ingenuity, it is possible to support a heavy and large electric motor on an engine body with sufficient strength while driving the electric motor with a belt without slipping, thereby providing a more streamlined industrial hybrid engine. The industrial hybrid engine is provided with an endless rotation band wound around a drive pulley of a crankshaft and a motor pulley of an electric ...