US Patent Issued to Daifuku on June 30 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,430, issued on June 30, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Kosuke Kimura (Hinocho, Japan), Daisuke Ogawa (Hinocho, Japan) and Yuya Hirao (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article transport facility includes a transport vehicle. The transport vehicle is configured to switch an access point of a connection destination while moving along a path to maintain a communicable state with a control device. In a case in which a communication intensity of radio waves between the transport vehicle and the access point is lower than a predetermined switching threshold value...