US Patent Issued to Kubota on Sept. 30 for "Operation mechanism of front loader and working vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,810, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Operation mechanism of front loader and working vehicle" was invented by Naotaka Fukaya (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroki Aze (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an operation lever, a moving pin movable in a front-rear direction and a left-right direction according to an operation of the operation lever and connected to a control valve, and a restriction mechanism configured to restrict movement of the moving pin in a state where the operation lever is operated to a neutral position. The restriction mechanism includes a ball capable of abutting on a...