US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Sept. 15 for "Contactless power feeder" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,769, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Contactless power feeder" was invented by Takeshi Hisano (Hinocho, Japan), Kousei Noma (Hinocho, Japan) and Reiya Suzuki (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless power feeder including multiple feed lines includes a coupler disposed between a first feed line and a second feed line adjacent to each other and holding a first section and a second section of each of the first feed line and the second feed line facing each other. The first feed line and the second feed line are arranged in the coupler to cause a direction of a current through t...