US Patent Issued to DAIFUKU on May 12 for "Transfer system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,855, issued on May 12, was assigned to DAIFUKU Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transfer system" was invented by Takeshi Abe (Shiga, Japan), Hiroyuki Nakagawa (Komaki, Japan) and Hiroyoshi Toba (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a transfer system capable of efficiently transferring, by use of a bidirectional conveyor, a transfer target between different points. The transfer system include a control device that: executes, in an alternate manner, a first mode in which a transfer target on a conveyor mechanism of a bidirectional conveyor device is transferred in a first direction and a second mode in which a t...