US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 1 for "Numerical control device and numerical control system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,292, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Numerical control device and numerical control system" was invented by Kazutaka Imanishi (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a numerical control device and a numerical control system that can prevent accidental contact stops when a cooperating robot acts on a workpiece. The numerical control device uses a numerical control program to control a robot via a robot control device, and comprises: an analysis unit; a payload-switching distance setting unit that generates a signal for setting a payload-switching distance; a p...