US Patent Issued to FUJI on July 28 for "Maintenance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,655, issued on July 28, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Maintenance device" was invented by Yusuke Yamazaki (Chiryu, Japan) and Yuji Kawasaki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance device is applied to a bulk feeder including a feeder main body section, a track member, a vibration device, and a cavity group, and includes an initialization section and a vibration force control section. When the use time of the bulk feeder elapses a predetermined time, the initialization section returns a supply component existing in the cavity group toward a receiving region, and sets the cavity group to an initializa...