US Patent Issued to Daifuku on June 30 for "Transport conveyor and transport apparatus equipped with transport conveyor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,428, issued on June 30, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport conveyor and transport apparatus equipped with transport conveyor" was invented by Kouichirou Nakashima (Hinocho, Japan), Yuki Matsuda (Hinocho, Japan) and Shinya Hasaka (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The endless path includes: a first region extending linearly in the transport direction and constituting a transport surface on which the object to be transported is placeable, turn-back regions in which the endless path is turned back downward from respective end portions of the first region in the transport direction; and a second regio...