ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,296, issued on April 29, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Ceiling transport vehicle" was invented by Makoto Kobayashi (Ise, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overhead transport vehicle includes an elevator including a base on which a holding device is provided, a plurality of suspension attaching portions to which each of the plurality of belts are attached and supporting the base to be vertically movable from below in a vertical direction via a vibration isolator, and a lock mechanism that fixes a relative positional relation between each of the plurality of suspension attaching portions and the base. The ...