ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,442, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Conveyance apparatus" was invented by Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan), Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan) and Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo-to, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance apparatus capable of easily moving an object without the need for a precise alignment control for engaging an arm thereof with the object is provided. The conveyance apparatus includes: an arm that is movable in a horizontal direction; and a control unit configured to control a movement of the arm, in which the arm includes a ratchet claw, and the control unit moves the arm alon...