ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,326, issued on May 12, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).
"Component storage system, a component storehouse and a magazine preparation method" was invented by Yoichi Matsushita (Iwata, Japan) and Yoshihiro Otaka (Iwata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The component storehouse storing the tray in the tray storage rack (tray storage part) is notified of the magazine preparation command indicating the component to be held in the slot of the magazine. In response to this, the component storehouse includes the working robot (work implementation part) that conducts a predetermined work including the tray extraction w...