ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,826, issued on July 8, was assigned to NAKANISHI METAL WORKS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Loading and unloading system" was invented by Masayoshi Hoshi (Osaka, Japan) and Hideaki Mizutani (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading and unloading system includes: a robot including a robot arm; an automated guided vehicle on which the robot is mounted, the automated guided vehicle including a travel driving unit; transport conveyors; a robot controller that controls an operation of the robot arm 41 and supplies driving electric power to the robot arm; and a connector that receives electric power from outside of the loading and u...