ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,851, issued on May 12, was assigned to KYOWA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Motorized conveyor roller and conveyor device" was invented by Shinya Yamamoto (Hyogo, Japan) and Yusuke Saegusa (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized conveyor roller according to the present invention includes: a pair of support shafts that rotatably support a roller tube; a motor and a drive circuit therefor each located in the roller tube; and a heat conducting part that conducts heat from the drive circuit to one of the pair of support shafts. A conveyor device according to the present invention includes one or more of the motor...