ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,936, issued on May 20, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Pallet replacing device" was invented by Shunji Morikawa (Toyoake, Japan) and Tomoharu Yoshino (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a pallet replacing device configured to be applied to a component supply device in which pallets, each holding components, are individually stored in multiple storage slots which are formed at predetermined heightward intervals inside a magazine, and the pallets are selectively drawn out to supply the components, the pallet replacing device, including a main body case, multiple replacing slots formed at the pre...