ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,006, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOHO INDUSTRIES Co. LTD (Osaka, Japan).
"Pallet and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Daisuke Kondo (Osaka, Japan), Toru Oda (Osaka, Japan), Toru Ibayashi (Osaka, Japan), Hironori Nitta (Osaka, Japan) and Daichi Fukasawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pallet manufacturing method, variations of pallets, having different thicknesses of pallet bodies, heights of legs, or foaming ratios thereof, are manufactured at low cost and with high quality. The method includes a pallet body molding step for molding a plurality of the pallet bodies of a plurality of types having di...