US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on July 15 for "Cargo crane, cargo-crane swing prevention method, and cargo conveyance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,761, issued on July 15, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cargo crane, cargo-crane swing prevention method, and cargo conveyance method" was invented by Yuki Takaki (Tokyo), Yusuke Yoshinari (Tokyo) and Osamu Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cargo crane including an arm turning mechanism that turns a crane arm; an arm luffing mechanism that adjusts the luffing angle; an arm extension and contraction mechanism that adjusts the arm length; and a control device that calculates a trajectory in which a suspended cargo is conveyed, and that controls the mechanisms. The control device calculates the trajectory so as...