US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 23 for "Transport system, mover, control apparatus, and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,918, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Transport system, mover, control apparatus, and control method" was invented by Takeshi Yamamoto (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system includes: a mover having a first magnet group arranged in parallel to a first direction and a second magnet group arranged in parallel to a second direction crossing the first direction; and a plurality of coils arranged in parallel to the first direction so as to be able to face the first magnet group and the second magnet group, and the mover is able to move in the first direction along the plurality of coils...