US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 24 for "Extension pipe and transport robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,879, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Extension pipe and transport robot" was invented by Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo-to, Japan), Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan) and Yoshiaki Nakamoto (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extension pipe includes a first belt including a plurality of first engagement pins formed on an upper side along the upper side and a plurality of second engagement pins formed on a lower side along the lower side, a second belt including a plurality of first engagement holes formed on the upper side along the upper side and a plurality of second engagement holes...