US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Sept. 1 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,905, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Toshihito Ueda (Hinocho, Japan), Tatsuki Ii (Hinocho, Japan), Akira Suzuki (Hinocho, Japan), Tomoaki Nishikawa (Hinocho, Japan) and Shota Inden (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A normal control mode and a substitute control mode are set, as control modes that are executed by a control system including a higher-level control device and a section control device. The normal control mode is a mode in which control of a transport vehicle in a specific section is performed by the section control device respons...