US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 15 for "Conveyance system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,306, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Conveyance system" was invented by Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan) and Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance system which improves the stability of a mounting base raised and lowered along a guide rail is achieved. A conveyance system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a mounting base with a groove guided along a guide rail extending in a vertical direction and a lifting mechanism configured to raise and lower the mounting base. When a direction of a movement of an item to be carried out from the ...