ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,335, issued on April 21, was assigned to ISHIDA Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Box-packing apparatus" was invented by Masashi Kurokawa (Ritto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A box-packing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, an alignment unit, an accumulation unit, a contact unit, a gate, and a control unit. The alignment unit aligns articles being conveyed so that mutually adjacent articles partially overlap and form an article group. The accumulation unit transfers the aligned article group and accumulates multiple article groups so they are parallel on a box-packing conveyance route. The contact unit contacts the articles on th...