US Patent Issued to Daifuku on July 28 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,666, issued on July 28, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Hiroshi Otsuka (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system executes preliminary biasing processing including controlling a guide wheel drive unit to bias a guide wheel in a direction from a first position toward a second position while the guide wheel is at the first position and is in contact with a first-side surface of a branch guide portion from a first side in a width direction before entering a switching area, and allows the guide wheel to pass through the switching area while executing the p...