US Patent Issued to ATI Industrial Automation on April 21 for "Force overshoot and other pressure disturbance mitigation in pneumatic force control devices" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,849, issued on April 21, was assigned to ATI Industrial Automation Inc. (Apex, N.C.).

"Force overshoot and other pressure disturbance mitigation in pneumatic force control devices" was invented by Andrew Glusiec (Apex, N.C.) and Samuel Koenke (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pressure disturbances in a pneumatic robotic force control device-including force overshoot upon initial contact between a robotic tool and a workpiece-are mitigated by increasing the mass air flow in or out of a pneumatic chamber via one or more force overshoot mitigation air passages formed in the robotic force control device. The force overshoot mit...