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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx jour nalists report that a patent by the inventors Hashimoto, Takeshi (Kobe, JP), Hir ata, Kazunori (Kobe, JP), Tsujimori, Toshiyuki (Kobe, JP), Yoshikuwa, Eiji (Kobe , JP), filed on July 2, 2020, was published online on May 7, 2024. The patent's assignee for patent number 11975450 is Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki K aisha (Kobe, Japan). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: "BACKGROUND ART "Devices which transfer workpieces while sucking upper surfaces of the workpiece s are known (see Patent Document 1). In Patent Document 1, a pair of arms are pr ovided to a single suction head. The arms are moved to bring five workpieces, wh ich are lined up laterally, close to the center, and the suction head sucks the five workpieces all at once."