US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on Oct. 21 for "Overhead transport vehicle, and method of controlling raising/lowering of gripping unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,254, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Overhead transport vehicle, and method of controlling raising/lowering of gripping unit" was invented by Chiaki Fukushima (Inuyama, Japan) and Futoshi Watabe (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overhead transport vehicle includes a gripping unit to grip an article, an suspension unit by which the gripping unit is suspended, a drive unit that reels up the suspension unit to thereby raise the gripping unit, a detection unit to detect swing of the gripping unit, and a controller that controls the drive unit to reel up the suspension unit and sto...