US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Aug. 12 for "Shovel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,219, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shovel" was invented by Ryuji Shiratani (Chiba, Japan), Hiroyuki Kurokawa (Chiba, Japan) and Hajime Aragaki (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shovel includes an undercarriage, an upper swing structure swingably attached to the undercarriage, and an automatic greaser mounted on the upper swing structure. The automatic greaser is configured to individually change the amount of grease fed to a first greasing point among multiple greasing points and the amount of grease fed to a second greasing point among the multiple greasing points ...