ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,195, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sample transporting device, system and method" was invented by Yuichiro Shiga (Tokyo) and Kuniaki Onizawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In sample transporting devices, the operation sound of a belt conveyor and the driving sound of a drive motor are caused by operating a transporting line when transporting samples, and reducing the driving sound and operation sound is required. In the present invention, a detection signal of the detection sensor 309 is detected by a detection unit 310, and a control unit 111 performs controlling to change the current val...