US Patent Issued to FANUC on Oct. 6 for "Actuator and robot" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,443, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Actuator and robot" was invented by Kazutaka Nakayama (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator including a fixed member, a mobile member, a hollow hole penetrating the actuator, an umbilical member passing through the inside of the hollow hole, a first fixing part having a first gripping part that grips one portion of the umbilical member, and a second fixing part having a second gripping part that grips another portion of the umbilical member. The first gripping part and the second gripping part are positioned inside of the hollow hole."

The ...