US Patent Issued to Daifuku on May 5 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,631, issued on May 5, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Toshihito Ueda (Hinocho, Japan), Shota Inden (Hinocho, Japan), Akira Suzuki (Hinocho, Japan), Ryoji Kishi (Hinocho, Japan), Ayaka Kawanami (Hinocho, Japan), Yoshitaka Tanaka (Hinocho, Japan), Tatsuki Ii (Hinocho, Japan), Noriyuki Ikuta (Hinocho, Japan) and Yuya Hirao (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article transport facility includes a plurality of transport vehicles, a first traveling rail, a second traveling rail below the first traveling rail, a lifter including a lift rail, and a control system. In r...