US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Oct. 27 for "Transport device and transport method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,201, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Transport device and transport method" was invented by Kenichi Ohta (Tokyo) and Taizo Iwayaguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device for transporting a cryopump includes a bogie that includes a front wheel and a rear wheel, a mast that extends from a front side of the bogie in a height direction, a raising and lowering unit that is supported by the mast and that has a changeable height, a guide rail that extends forward from the raising and lowering unit, an arm that is supported by the guide rail and that is slidable in a fro...