US Patent Issued to FUJI on Aug. 25 for "Bulk feeder and feeder management device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,703, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Bulk feeder and feeder management device" was invented by Yusuke Yamazaki (Chiryu, Japan) and Toru Takahama (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bulk feeder includes a feeder main body, a bracket provided to be vibratable with respect to the feeder main body, a track member provided detachably with respect to the bracket, an excitation device configured to apply vibration to the track member via the bracket, a locking target member provided in a first one of the track member and the bracket, and a lock member provided in a second one of the track membe...