US Patent Issued to FUJI on Sept. 15 for "Article delivery system and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,255, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Article delivery system and method" was invented by Sota Mizuno (Okazaki, Japan) and Yoshihiro Fujita (Chiryu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an article is delivered between a first electric conveyor of an automated guided vehicle and a second electric conveyor of a storage section, a first communication module of the automated guided vehicle and a second communication module of the storage section exchange signals, power supply to the first electric conveyor is shut off in response to a first emergency stop switch of the automated guided vehicle, a fir...