US Patent Issued to Daifuku on July 28 for "Travel facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,720, issued on July 28, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Travel facility" was invented by Yoshinari Wada (Hinocho, Japan) and Kenji Tamura (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first power reception posture, a first power reception section does not overlap with a first rail and a first feeder cable in a view along a first direction but overlaps with at least one of the first rail and the first feeder cable in a view along a second direction. In a first non-power reception posture, the first power reception section does not overlap with the first rail, the first feeder cable, a second rail, and a second ...