US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Logisnext on Sept. 16 for "Transport vehicle, connecting part, distance specifying method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,711, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mitsubishi Logisnext Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transport vehicle, connecting part, distance specifying method, and recording medium" was invented by Tetsuro Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport vehicle is provided, which is capable of adjusting a cargo loading position afterward even if a mobile shelf, a truck, or the like deviates from a predetermined position. The transport vehicle 1 includes: forks 16; a point group acquisition unit 22 that acquires a point group PG by horizontally irradiating a laser; and a distance specifying unit that specifies a distance in ...