US Patent Issued to FANUC on June 30 for "Workpiece support device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,919, issued on June 30, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Workpiece support device" was invented by Hiroaki Akamine (Yamanashi, Japan) and Toshihiko Inoue (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece support device including a base, an electrically conductive worktable rotatably supported with respect to the base, a motor, a reducer that transmits rotation of the motor to the worktable and reduces a speed of the rotation, and a metal adapter interposed between the worktable and the reducer to separate the worktable and the reducer from each other. The worktable and the adapter are electrically insulated...