US Patent Issued to Kubota on June 10 for "Work vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,973, issued on June 10, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle" was invented by Satoshi Takaki (Sakai, Japan) and Kosuke Hattori (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust system includes a vehicle body frame, a bonnet cover provided on the vehicle body frame in a height direction along a height of the vehicle body frame and having a first opening, an exhaust treatment device provided inside a space surrounded by the vehicle body frame and the bonnet cover to treat exhaust from an engine, an exhaust pipe passing through the first opening. The exhaust pipe has an intake port connected to the exhaust tr...