US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on July 7 for "Overhead conveying vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,817, issued on July 7, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Overhead conveying vehicle" was invented by Makoto Kobayashi (Ise, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an overhead conveying vehicle, a main body to hold a conveyed object is suspended and supported by a conveyor. The overhead conveying vehicle includes: a base unit suspended from the conveyor, a support part in the main body to rotatably support the base unit via a turning shaft extending in a horizontal direction, and a pair of dampers sandwiching the turning shaft in a second direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to both the first dir...