US Patent Issued to Kyoto Seisakusho on May 27 for "Transport apparatus for pieces to be transported" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,181, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kyoto Seisakusho Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transport apparatus for pieces to be transported" was invented by Kentaro Hayashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a run-up region provided upstream, in the transport direction, of a branch point in a main transport passage, a main transport mechanism and a branching transport mechanism both transport a transport case. When the transport case is fed to a branching transport passage, the main transport mechanism finishes transporting the transport case before the transport case reaches the branch point."

The patent was filed on June 29, 2...