US Patent Issued to FANUC on May 26 for "Damage-point estimation device and damage-point estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,800, issued on May 26, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Damage-point estimation device and damage-point estimation method" was invented by Yuusei Onodera (Yamanashi, Japan) and Shun Suyama (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a damage-point estimation device that is capable of more accurately extracting points susceptible to damage in a linear-motion guide mechanism for a robot. A damage-point estimation device 30 comprises: a data acquisition unit 31 that acquires physical parameters concerning the motion of a robot 10 with respect to individual axes and e...