US Patent Issued to ITOH DENKI on March 17 for "Conveyor system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,697, issued on March 17, was assigned to ITOH DENKI Co. LTD. (Kasai, Japan).

"Conveyor system" was invented by Kazuo Itoh (Kasai, Japan), Tetsuya Itoh (Kasai, Japan) and Tomoya Matoba (Kasai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conveyor system may comprise conveyor mechanism(s) provided with transport path(s) along which conveyed object(s) are conveyed to transport destination(s); electric current detector(s) and/or abnormality detector(s) that detect triggering event(s) which may be event(s) occurring at conveyor mechanism(s) due to conveyed object(s) during transport of conveyed object(s); and removal processor(s) that, when trig...