ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,388, issued on April 21, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Switch-on unit in a linear transport system" was invented by Jan Achterberg (Duisburg, Germany), Andreas Brinker (Bakum, Germany), Manuel Bettenworth (Vienna) and Thomas Vorbohle (Rietberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch-on unit for a tool of a movable unit of a linear transport system can be fastened to the movable unit. The switch-on unit includes a housing, an energy-receiving coil with energy-receiving electronics, and a movable antenna with communication electronics. The energy-receiving electronics and the communication electro...