US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Method of controlling storage conveyor and storage conveyor system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,905, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method of controlling storage conveyor and storage conveyor system" was invented by Toshihiko Hiratani (Toyota, Japan) and Naoyuki Taguri (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage conveyor mounted on a vehicle and configured to convey a cargo includes a right angle turn unit configured to change a traveling direction of the cargo from a first direction to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction at a right angle. When the traveling direction of the cargo is changed in the right angle turn unit, the cargo is pulled to a corner por...