US Patent Issued to Kubota on May 27 for "Hybrid system and working machine including hybrid system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,769, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Hybrid system and working machine including hybrid system" was invented by Sumio Yagyu (Sakai, Japan), Yuji Hirase (Sakai, Japan), Kazuto Okazaki (Sakai, Japan) and Tsunehiro Ii (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid system includes an engine, a generator to be driven by the engine, an electric actuator to be driven by electricity generated by the generator, a transmission to transmit power from the engine, a hydraulic pump to receive power from the engine through the transmission to deliver hydraulic fluid, and a hydraulic actuator to be driven by th...