US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 24 for "Conveyer apparatus and meandering correction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,701, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Conveyer apparatus and meandering correction method" was invented by Kazutaka Nishikawa (Nara, Japan), Yasushi Taniguchi (Osaka, Japan), Masahiro Nakajo (Osaka, Japan) and Masanori Kuroda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floatation roll supports a work to be conveyed contactlessly using a force applied to the work contactlessly. The floatation roll has a cylindrical shape extending in a direction of width of the work, and at least a surface of the floatation roll facing the work being formed by a circumferentia...