ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,225, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article sorting method and article sorting facility" was invented by Makoto Namikawa (Hinocho, Japan) and Manabu Onayama (Hinocho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where an article (A) is advanced along an inclined transport direction (C) by use of an article transverse-pushing body (4) configured to move along a main transport direction (T) and to be movable in a width direction (W) perpendicular to the main transport direction (T), the article transverse-pushing body (4) is accelerated in the width direction (W) in a sorting region (B) and then ...