US Patent Issued to FANUC on Jan. 20 for "End effector attachment apparatus, end effector, and robot arm mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,204, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"End effector attachment apparatus, end effector, and robot arm mechanism" was invented by Itsuki Yamada (Yamanashi, Japan) and Yoshitake Furuya (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector attachment apparatus is an apparatus to be attached to an end effector of a robot. The end effector attachment apparatus includes a base plate, a mount plate on which the end effector is mounted, an attraction mechanism for attracting the mount plate to the base plate, and a bellows coupling the mount plate to the base plate. The front and rear edges of the...