ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,369, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).
"Pallet supply apparatus" was invented by Koji Nakagawa (Nara, Japan) and Daisuke Miyamoto (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a pallet storage device (30) having holding units (31, 32, 33) holding pallets (P) and a frame (40) supporting the holding units (31, 32, 33), a conveyance device (10) having a traveling base (11) having a traveling path (11a) extending along the pallet storage device (30) and a conveyance unit (15) loading and unloading the pallets (P) into and from the holding units (31, 32, 33) and conveying th...