US Patent Issued to Kubota on Dec. 30 for "Working vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,854, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Working vehicle" was invented by Hiroshi Horii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working machine includes a machine body, a dozer, a boom, an arm, a working tool, a boom cylinder, and an arm cylinder. The working machine also includes an arm crowd restricting unit and a crowd restriction releasing unit. The arm crowd restricting unit imposes a restriction on a stroke of the arm cylinder in an arm crowd direction so that a swing track of a distal end portion of the working tool is spaced from the boom cylinder. The crowd restriction releasing unit relea...