US Patent Issued to KOMATSU INDUSTRIES on March 17 for "Workpiece transport device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,442, issued on March 17, was assigned to KOMATSU INDUSTRIES Corp. (Kanazawa, Japan).

"Workpiece transport device" was invented by Hidetoshi Akashi (Kanazawa, Japan), Shigenori Sano (Kanazawa, Japan) and Yuji Sakaguchi (Kanazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece transport device is downsized. A workpiece transport device includes: a pair of upstream-side end shaft and downstream-side end shafts disposed apart from each other in a transport direction that is a direction of transport of a workpiece, an upstream-side drive shaft disposed between a pair of upstream-side end shaft and downstream-side end shafts in the tran...