ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,485, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Work tool mounting mechanism" was invented by Shin Torii (Osaka, Japan) and Koshiro Hirakawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working tool mounting mechanism for a tractor, includes: an extensible cylinder that is disposed on a tip of a boom of a front loader of the tractor, and comprises a cylinder body and a rod slidable with respect to the cylinder body; engaging parts that are respectively disposed on the cylinder body and the rod, and are each movable between an engagement position and a release position with extension and contraction of the extens...