ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,483, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Transport apparatus" was invented by Takuma Hashizume (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport apparatus includes: a stator; a mover that includes a first scale and is movable along the stator in a first direction; a plurality of first detectors each of which is provided to be able to face the first scale and detects a position of the mover in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a control unit that controls position and/or attitude of the mover, the first scale and the first detector constitute an incremental encoder, wherein the plurality ...