ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,028, issued on April 14.
"Industrial robot comprising an axle drive with a compact construction" was invented by Martin Zimmer (Rheinau, Germany) and Gunther Zimmer (Rheinau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial robot has at least one translational or rotational axis, having an output element that has a toothing and at least one axis drive assembly that is associated with the translational or rotational axis and that meshes with the output element. The axis drive assembly has a drive motor and at least one transmission arranged downstream of the drive motor. In the case of a translational axis, the output element is ...