US Patent Issued to DUPLO on June 23 for "Transfer apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,347, issued on June 23, was assigned to DUPLO Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Transfer apparatus" was invented by Kazutaka Tsunoda (Sagamihara, Japan), Yukitaka Higuchi (Sagamihara, Japan) and Shuhei Yamamoto (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer apparatus transfers a transfer substance or a surface shape of a transfer web in a transfer section from the transfer web that is carried along a web route to a transfer target object that is carried along a carrying surface. The transfer apparatus includes a gap adjustment mechanism that adjusts the size of a gap between the carrying surface and the web route in the transfe...