US Patent Issued to SUZUKI MOTOR on July 15 for "Hybrid ship propulsion machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,602, issued on July 15, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Hybrid ship propulsion machine" was invented by Masatoshi Kimpara (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid ship propulsion machine includes an internal-combustion-drive propulsion part, a fixing bracket configured to fix the internal-combustion-drive propulsion part to a ship, an electric propulsion part, an elevating device configured to elevate and lower the electric propulsion part; and an attachment bracket attaching the electric propulsion part and the elevating device to the fixing bracket. The elevating device is configured to elev...