ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,545, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to JAPAN CASH MACHINE Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Paper sheet transport system and restoration method" was invented by Kazuo Nakatake (Osaka, Japan), Masaaki Ichikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Hirokazu Arai (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a configuration to move a transport body (500) in conjunction with movement of a moving body (200) due to repulsion applied between respective magnetic materials (213) and (523) when the moving body and the transport body are in a close location relation, and, when the moving body separates from a range of the close location rel...