US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Aug. 26 for "Linear transporter and method for manufacturing linear transporter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,002, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Linear transporter and method for manufacturing linear transporter" was invented by Yusuke Katsuda (Tokyo), Yoshinao Tatei (Tokyo), Toshio Mekata (Tokyo), Takeshi Musha (Tokyo) and Akira Hotta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear transporter includes: a transport path including a stator; multiple transport bodies that move along the transport path; a magnetizer that is installed on each of the transport bodies and generates a magnetic field for use in position detection; a magnetic detection element that is installed on the transport path and detect...