ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,144, issued on May 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Transport system and control method of transport system" was invented by Ryuji Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Shinkai (Tokyo), Takeshi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuharu Ezawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazushi Shimomura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomohiro Mizuno (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a transport system comprising: a stator having a first magnetic force unit; a mover having a second magnetic force unit; and a control unit. The control unit controls a magnetic force acting between the first magnetic force unit and the second magnetic force...