US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 3 for "Conveyance path switching apparatus, conveyance system, and conveyance path switching method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,384, issued on March 3, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Conveyance path switching apparatus, conveyance system, and conveyance path switching method" was invented by Kota Yamaguchi (Iwata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The support mechanism has a conveyor support member attached to the end portion of the movable linear conveyor and a single axis robot that is attached to a fixed linear conveyor and guides the conveyor support member in the Y direction. By the support mechanism having the conveyor support member and the single axis robot, the end portion of the movable linear conveyor can be firmly suppor...