US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Sept. 15 for "Transport vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,267, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport vehicle" was invented by Hiroshi Otsuka (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport vehicle includes a body including a first wheel and a second wheel, a first drive device that drives the first wheel, a second drive device that drives the second wheel, and a control device, the control device controlling the first drive device and the second drive device in such a manner that a torque ratio of a wheel with increased load, which is a ratio of a torque transmitted to the wheel with increased load to a sum of a first wheel torque and a ...