ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,634, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electric work vehicle" was invented by Kazuto Okazaki (Sakai, Japan), Masaaki Nishinaka (Sakai, Japan), Tatsuya Yamaguchi (Sakai, Japan) and Daiki Yasui (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work vehicle includes a battery, a motor drivable by power supplied from the battery, a travel device drivable by the motor, a steering wheel operable to steer the travel device, an operation panel below the steering wheel, and a motor power supply operator to turn power supply to the motor on and off. The motor power supply operator is located on the opera...