ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,875, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electric work vehicle" was invented by Kazuto Okazaki (Sakai, Japan), Shinichi Kawabata (Sakai, Japan), Keita Aoki (Sakai, Japan) and Ryunosuke Matsumoto (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work vehicle includes a body, a travel device in the body, a motor to drive the travel device, an inverter to supply power to the motor, an electric component, a DC/DC converter to convert a voltage of power to be supplied to the electric component, a radiator to cool coolant, and a cooling path through which the coolant cooled by the radiator circulates thr...