US Patent Issued to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS on June 23 for "Card conveyance unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,339, issued on June 23, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Card conveyance unit" was invented by Satoshi Yokoyama (Nagano, Japan) and Ryo Uchiyama (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card conveyance unit having a plurality of card cassettes, a carriage for a card, a carriage conveyance passage extended along a plurality of the card cassettes, a code reader for reading a code indicated on the card, and a control part for controlling a card send-out mechanism, a carriage moving mechanism, a conveying mechanism in the carriage and the code reader. The control part drives the carriage moving mechanism t...