US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on Aug. 4 for "Workpiece stocker" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,694, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Workpiece stocker" was invented by Shojiro Tanaka (Nara, Japan), Shotaro Morikawa (Sapporo, Japan), Tomoya Sadano (Nara, Japan) and Yuki Kumano (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece stocker houses a workpiece setting member such that the workpiece setting member is able to be pulled out from a housed position to a vehicle working position side and an opposite vehicle working position side. An automated transport system identifies a target workpiece stocker and a target workpiece setting member for an operation to be performed by a robot mounted ...