US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Sheet takeout method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,579, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Sheet takeout method" was invented by Nobuhira Abe (Miyoshi, Japan), Yuto Narita (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuichi Itoh (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet takeout method includes: pressing, when a restraint device is in a restrained state, a transfer plate which is in a horizontal state to pickup and hold a topmost sheet member; pressing the sheet members by an inelastic deformation part of the transfer plate while setting the restraint device to be in a non-restrained state and setting the transfer plate to be in an elastically deformed state;...