US Patent Issued to Kubota on Sept. 23 for "Tractor having mechanical linkage for selective draft control or depth control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,205, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Tractor having mechanical linkage for selective draft control or depth control" was invented by Daisuke Nakayama (Sakai, Japan), Hironobu Nogami (Sakai, Japan), Norihide Iwata (Sakai, Japan), Katsumi Yanagihara (Sakai, Japan), Naoto Mantoku (Sakai, Japan) and Keita Ono (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tractor includes a three-point linkage to which a tiller is mountable, a hydraulic lifting/lowering driver to lift and lower the three-point linkage, and a mechanical linkage to transmit a lifting/lowering operation amount of the three-point linkage to...