ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,970, issued on March 3, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transfer apparatus" was invented by Jun Sada (Tokyo), Yuuki Yasuda (Tokyo) and Takeshi Dejima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer unit of a transfer apparatus includes a battery that is a power source of respective components, a suction mechanism that is a suction source of a transfer pad, a release mechanism that is an air source of the transfer pad, and a water supply mechanism that causes circulation of water stored in a water reservoir, which are all provided inside a housing of the transfer unit. This eliminates the need to externally supply the transfer ...