US Patent Issued to Daifuku on June 30 for "Power supply facility" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,012, issued on June 30, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Power supply facility" was invented by Kousei Noma (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply facility includes a feeder cable disposed along a moving path of a movable body and configured to contactlessly supply electric power to the movable body, and a heat sensitive unit disposed along the moving path together with the feeder cable. The feeder cable includes a conductor bundle bundling up a plurality of conductor lines through which an alternating-current flows, and an insulating coating covering the conductor bundle. The heat sensitive un...