US Patent Issued to Daifuku on May 12 for "Transport vehicle with grip drive section" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,861, issued on May 12, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport vehicle with grip drive section" was invented by Yoshinari Wada (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first guide body includes a pair of first guide surfaces and corrects the position in a second direction of a gripping body section relative to a first grip section by at least one of the pair of first guide surfaces coming into contact with the first grip section during a lowering operation for gripping. A second guide body includes a pair of second guide surfaces and corrects the position in the second direction of the gripping body section...