US Patent Issued to SHIBUYA on Sept. 29 for "Aseptic conveying system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,055, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SHIBUYA Corp. (Kanazawa-shi, Japan).

"Aseptic conveying system" was invented by Yukinobu Nishino (Kanazawa, Japan), Satoshi Masumoto (Kanazawa, Japan), Takashi Higashizaki (Kanazawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Hashimoto (Kanazawa, Japan) and Ryota Hayase (Kanazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sterilization is efficiently performed with a small amount of sterilizing agent. A first partition plate separating an upstream zone and a downstream zone is provided with an opening for allowing a container holding section that moves according to rotation of a fifth rotation wheel (transfer rotation whee...