US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on Oct. 20 for "Conveying device and conveying method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,464, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conveying device and conveying method" was invented by Shinji Azuma (Tokyo), Hiroshi Watanabe (Tokyo) and Shigeru Yano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a conveying device and a conveying method capable of improving the position detection accuracy of the holder as compared with the related art. A conveying device 100 includes a coil 107 including a core 105 and a winding 106, a drive unit 108 that supplies a current to the winding 106, a current detection unit 109 that detects the value of the current flowing through the winding 106, and a cont...