ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,166, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Energy transmission in a linear transport system" was invented by Thomas Vorbohle (Rietberg, Germany), Jan Achterberg (Duisburg, Germany) and Andreas Brinker (Bakum, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting energy from a stationary unit of a linear transport system to a movable unit of the linear transport system. The linear transport system includes a movable unit and at least one further movable unit, a guide rail and a linear motor. The movable units include energy-transmitting coils. The following steps are carried out by a ...