US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "In-vehicle cargo handling system, stacker, and method of delivering cargo" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,227, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"In-vehicle cargo handling system, stacker, and method of delivering cargo" was invented by Toshihiko Hiratani (Toyota, Japan) and Naoyuki Taguri (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle cargo handling system includes a storage conveyor configured to circularly convey a cargo along a one-stroke conveyance route, and a stacker fixedly installed in a vehicle and configured to rotate the cargo at least around an axis parallel to a vehicle vertical direction, the stacker transferring the cargo between a first transfer position provided in the ...