US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on July 14 for "Transfer device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,643, issued on July 14, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transfer device" was invented by Yuji Tsuji (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer device includes a hook, a forward and backward movable device, a hook driver to move the hook, a forward and backward movement driver to move the forward and backward movable device forward or backward, and a drive controller configured or programmed to control the hook driver and the forward and backward movement driver. The drive controller is configured or programmed to include a hook position assessor to assess the hook position based on a position thr...