US Patent Issued to FANUC on Feb. 3 for "Article storage device and picking system provided with article storage device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,034, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Article storage device and picking system provided with article storage device" was invented by Shunji Yamaguchi (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a recent article storage apparatus, it is required to be able to open and close the opening of a container by a simple operation while reducing the number of parts of the article storage apparatus.An article storage apparatus includes a storage rack (12) on which a container (24) having an opening is set, and a lid (28) provided at a separate member from the container, and reciprocable between a cl...