ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,919, issued on June 3, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Arm structure of industrial robot" was invented by Toshihiko Inoue (Yamanashi, Japan), Akihiro Oikawa (Yamanashi, Japan) and Rion Miyashita (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an arm structure of an industrial robot in which the same wrist element is enabled to have a plurality of types of characteristics, thus allowing a variation model to be readily implemented. An arm structure of an industrial robot with a plurality of wrist elements, the arm structure being provided with, in a housing: a first motor and a second motor that drive the p...