US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 1 for "Robot system with a torque sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,300, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Robot system with a torque sensor" was invented by Naoki Fujioka (Yamanashi, Japan), Kazuki Wakabayashi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Keita Suyama (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a robot that includes one or more joints, and a determination unit that is connected to the robot. The joints each include a motor, a speed reduction mechanism that reduces a speed of revolution of the motor; and a torque sensor capable of measuring an output torque of the speed reduction mechanism. The speed reduction mechanism includes a plurality of ...