US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 3 for "Radiography unit and radiography system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,526, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radiography unit and radiography system" was invented by Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihito Bettoyashiki (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoaki Nakashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayoshi Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kyohei Mori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The radiography unit includes: a wheel portion including a first wheel movable in a first direction by rotation, and a second wheel arranged circumferentially in a rotation direction of the first wheel and movable in a second direction different from the first direction by rotation; a brake mechanism con...