ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,681, issued on April 7, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"External robot stand external robot system" was invented by Masanori Itou (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external robot stand that is installed outside a machine tool includes a fixed unit fixed to the machine tool in a positioned state and a movable unit attached to the fixed unit in a detachable manner. The fixed unit is provided with a robot installation surface on which a robot that performs work with respect to the machine tool can be installed. An operating range of the robot is arranged to extend across both of the fixed unit and the ...