US Patent Issued to Daifuku on May 19 for "Container processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,377, issued on May 19, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Container processing apparatus" was invented by Masashige Iwata (Hinocho, Japan), Kazunari Kimura (Hinocho, Japan) and Takashi Hirata (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each first locking unit of a pair of first locking units (11) is positioned in such a manner that a plurality of first locking portions (14) are respectively locked to side surfaces of a plurality of containers (90) included in a stacked container group arranged in a container group arrangement region (A), in a state where the first locking portions (14) are lined up along an up-down d...