US Patent Issued to HOKUYO AUTOMATIC, DAIFUKU on May 13 for "Object detection system, transport vehicle, and object detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,407, issued on May 13, was assigned to HOKUYO AUTOMATIC Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and DAIFUKU Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Object detection system, transport vehicle, and object detection device" was invented by Natsuo Takagawa (Gamo-gun, Japan), Akihito Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Kasahara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection device includes: a scanning optical system configured to scan a space by measurement light and guide reflected light from an object; a distance calculation circuit configured to calculate a distance and a direction to the object based on physical relationship between the measurem...