US Patent Issued to Ishida on Sept. 1 for "Combination weighing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,903, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ishida Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Combination weighing apparatus" was invented by Satoru Kamigaito (Ritto, Japan), Hideshi Miyamoto (Ritto, Japan), Osamu Hirose (Ritto, Japan) and Toshiharu Kageyama (Ritto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination weighing apparatus (1) includes: a distribution table (11) that rotates about a rotation shaft (X) to distribute articles (100) given from an outside in a radial direction; a plurality of radial feeders (20) that are arranged radially around the distribution table (11), receive the articles (100) discharged from the distribution table (11), a...