US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on May 26 for "Robot for coating a vehicle body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,670, issued on May 26, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Robot for coating a vehicle body" was invented by Kisumi Iida (Tokyo), Takahiro Tawata (Tokyo) and Norio Umezawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot for coating a vehicle body includes a coating head, a reservoir for storing coating material, a supply device capable of controlling the pressure of coating material flowing through a circulation path provided between the coating head and the reservoir, and an arm having a coating head and a supply device. The arm is a multi-axis arm having multiple arm members and a movable shaft connecting each arm me...