US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on April 21 for "Overhead traveling carrier with left and right arms and supports" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,371, issued on April 21, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Overhead traveling carrier with left and right arms and supports" was invented by Makoto Kobayashi (Ise, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overhead transport vehicle includes a lifter to be raised and lowered by a plurality of suspensions on left and right sides. The lifter includes a base portion, a left support and a right support attached to lower ends of the suspensions and each supporting the base portion via an elastic body, and a left arm and a right that are respectively bridged between the left support and the base portion and between the ...