US Patent Issued to NAKANISHI METAL WORKS on Sept. 2 for "Overhead conveyor, and workpiece conveying method using overhead conveyor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,121, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NAKANISHI METAL WORKS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Overhead conveyor, and workpiece conveying method using overhead conveyor" was invented by Atsushi Imai (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuhisa Yoshikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an overhead conveyor that conveys a carrier loaded with a workpiece. The carrier includes a primary carrier, and a secondary carrier having a hanger that supports the workpiece. The overhead conveyor includes a rotation drive device that rotates the secondary carrier around the vertical axis, a friction brake device that makes the secondary carrier non...