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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,510, issued on June 30, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport facility" was invented by Daichi Tomida (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport facility includes a container mount that supports a container, and a transport vehicle that transports the container. The transport vehicle includes a holder that holds and releases the container, and a lifter that lifts and lowers the holder. The holder includes a first support and a second support that are pair of supports, a holder driver that causes the pair of supports to change a posture between a holding posture for holding the container and a rel...