US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Oct. 28 for "Raising and lowering apparatus and transport carriage" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,420, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Raising and lowering apparatus and transport carriage" was invented by Masahiro Ooe (Hino-cho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a raising and lowering apparatus which enables achievement of a design that enables a reduction in height of a stage in a raising and lowering direction while reducing the buckling of a push chain. The raising and lowering apparatus includes a push chain (10), a stage (12), a guide (14), and a sprocket (16). The push chain has a first straight rod part (10A) that extends along a first direction (D1), a second straight r...