ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,849, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and Nidec Taiwan Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Driver of automatic guided vehicle" was invented by Guo-Jhih Yan (Taipei, Taiwan), Keng-Chang Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Huu-Tich Ngo (Taipei, Taiwan), Kuo-Min Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsiu-Ying Lin (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver of an automatic guided vehicle includes a crown gear (turning gear) fixed to a bottom of a vehicle body, a support shaft penetrating a center of the crown gear and extending vertically from the vehicle body, a frame supported by the support shaft to be rotatable on a horizontal p...