ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,672, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transport apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Tamakoshi (Tokyo), Satoru Kaneko (Tokyo), Yasuaki Aoyama (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Tokyo), Ryosuke Hoshi (Tokyo), Hiroshi Watanabe (Tokyo), Katsuhiro Kambara (Tokyo) and Kuniaki Onizawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveying device detects an abnormality due to a change in the surface state of the conveying plane. The conveying device has a conveying plane for conveying thereabove a conveying container equipped with a magnetic body, a position detection unit for detecting the position of the conveying c...