ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,175, issued on May 12, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Contactless power feeding facility" was invented by Makoto Nunoya (Gamo-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless power feeding facility includes a coupling unit electromagnetically coupling a target feeder line and an adjacent feeder line. A target power supply apparatus includes: a phase detector detecting the induced current phase which is the phase of an induced current flowing through the target feeder line by the electromagnetic induction via the coupling unit while an alternating current is supplied to the adjacent feeder line by an adjacent ...