US Patent Issued to Daifuku on April 15 for "Transport vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,583, issued on April 15, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport vehicle" was invented by Masashige Iwata (Hinocho, Japan), Kazunari Kimura (Hinocho, Japan) and Hiroyoshi Murata (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel body includes a wheel drive source for driving a drive wheel, a support arm swingable relative to a travel body section and supporting the drive wheel and the wheel drive source, a swing support attached to the travel body section and supporting the swing fulcrum of the support arm, and an elastic unit. The swing support is detachably attached to the travel body section. The elastic un...