ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,311, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to JAPAN CASH MACHINE Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Transport system" was invented by Hirokazu Arai (Osaka, Japan) and Toshitaka Nishizaki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system 10C has a configuration to move a transport body 500 in conjunction with movement of a moving body 200 by using repulsion based on a magnetic force applied between moving body magnets 213 and a transport body magnet 523 when there is a proximal positional relation between these magnets. The transport system 10C includes a control coil 903 that controls a traveling state of the moving body 200, and a co...