ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,876, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Work machine" was invented by Yuki Takano (Osaka, Japan) and Kiyoshi Ueda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Achieved are reduction of noise which is caused by air intake sound of a pre-cleaner, improvement of rear viewability and rear visibility of an operator, and extension of a maintenance interval of the pre-cleaner. A wheel loader (1) includes: an engine (18); a hood (23) that covers, in an openable and closable manner, a space in which the engine (18) is contained and that has an air intake opening (23a) through which air is taken into the space; an...