ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,649, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Transport apparatus and method of adjusting transport apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Omori (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport apparatus includes a support; an elevating base supported in the support to be movable up and down; a belt stretched from the elevating base; a pulley wrapped with the belt; a shaft fitting into the pulley; a fixing member disposed on each side of the pulley in an axial direction of the shaft; a pair of bearings that rotatably hold the shaft in the fixing member; a cylindrical member fitting around the shaft; and...