US Patent Issued to ISHIDA on Aug. 11 for "Article-transfer apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,578, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ISHIDA Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Article-transfer apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Arimatsu (Ritto, Japan), Masaaki Hojo (Ritto, Japan) and Masashi Takeoka (Ritto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With an article-transfer apparatus as disclosed herein, aligning articles is not hindered even when supply intervals of the articles change. Specifically, in cases where time intervals of bags supplied from upstream to an article-introduction conveyor become short and a control unit judges that the bags will not be able to be aligned (e.g., for packaging) even if they reach an alignment conveyor...