US Patent Issued to Hitachi High-Tech on Sept. 15 for "Transport device and analysis system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,277, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transport device and analysis system" was invented by Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Satoru Kaneko (Tokyo), Takeshi Tamakoshi (Tokyo), Yasuaki Aoyama (Tokyo), Ryosuke Hoshi (Tokyo), Hiroshi Watanabe (Tokyo) and Kuniaki Onizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a transport device and an analysis system in which a stability of transport at a time of restart is further enhanced while achieving cost reduction by a position-sensorless configuration. A transport device includes: a plurality of coils 25a, 25b configured to generate a thrust to transpor...