US Patent Issued to FANUC on Sept. 8 for "Master unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,426, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Master unit" was invented by Masahiro Saeki (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan), Shinichi Kuwahata (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan) and Asunaro Maeda (Minamitsuru-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master unit that transmits a signal with a device via an I/O unit comprises: a connector module having a first connector and a power source unit; and a signal processing module having a branch terminal and a master processing circuit. The connector module and the signal processing module further comprise connection terminal units that connect the first connector and the power s...