ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,085, issued on April 7, 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: "The disclosed box-packing apparatus can pack a large quantity of articles quickly and orderly. It includes a conveyance unit, an alignment unit, a transfer unit, a contact unit, a drive unit, and a control unit. The alignment unit aligns articles conveyed on the conveyance unite so that mutually adjacent ones partially overlap and form an article group. The transfer unit transfers article groups to a box-packing conveyance route. The contact unit contacts article...