US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Operation unit for construction machine, and construction machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,050, issued on July 22, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Operation unit for construction machine, and construction machine" was invented by Hiroaki Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Hoshino (Kanagawa, Japan), Dotaro Usui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinichiro Tsukahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation unit for a construction machine includes an operation part configured to be operated to input a direction for operating the construction machine. When a first direction is input through the operation part, the operation part is configured to present a second direction corresponding to the fi...