ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,532, issued on May 20, was assigned to DAIFUKU Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article conveyance apparatus" was invented by Yuichi Ueda (Shiga, Japan), Osamu Matsui (Shiga, Japan), Hiroyuki Koide (Shiga, Japan) and Atsushi Ishikura (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article conveyance apparatus couples a plurality of conveyor carriages for conveying articles and enables the coupled conveyor carriages to travel along a conveyance path K. The conveyor carriage is coupled by a coupling part to another conveyor carriage placed in the longitudinal direction with respect to a traveling direction H of the conveyor carriage. The conv...