US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Oct. 20 for "Transport vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,439, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport vehicle" was invented by Masashige Iwata (Hinocho, Japan), Kazunari Kimura (Hinocho, Japan) and Hiroyoshi Murata (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport vehicle of the present invention includes; a container group support section that supports a container group, which includes containers in a stacked state, in a predetermined stacking region; a lifting device-that lifts a container in the container group supported by the container group support section; and a transfer device that transfers a container. The lifting device includes: a...