US Patent Issued to DAIFUKU on Sept. 29 for "Transfer system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,101, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to DAIFUKU Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transfer system" was invented by Kenichi Ukisu (Tokyo) and Atsushi Minoo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention improves workability in manual transfer in which an article is transferred by an operator. A transfer system (100) includes a transfer unit (3) for transferring, to a second transfer position (P21), an article (W) transferred to a first transfer position (P11), and changes a first transfer position (P11) for automatic transfer in which the article (W) is transferred by the transfer unit (3) and a first transfer position (P12) for manua...