US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Oct. 20 for "Article accommodation facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,445, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article accommodation facility" was invented by Kazuya Namazue (Hinocho, Japan) and Kenji Tamura (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The article accommodation facility includes a first stacker crane disposed at a first level, a second stacker crane disposed at a second level, and a storage rack. The storage rack extends across the first level and the second level. The storage rack has a common area that includes at least one accommodation section to and from which an article is carriable from two sides in a second direction. The first stacker crane i...