US Patent Issued to IHI AEROSPACE, JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY on July 14 for "Power controller for linear actuator in docking device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,529, issued on July 14, was assigned to IHI AEROSPACE Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY (Tokyo).

"Power controller for linear actuator in docking device" was invented by Koshiro Usuku (Tokyo), Michio Isayama (Tokyo), Akira Mochigi (Tokyo), Kenta Nagahama (Tokyo), Tadashi Masuoka (Tokyo) and Kaname Kawatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power controller of a linear actuator 10 in a docking device 1 including a six-axis parallel link mechanism 5, wherein a motor driver 11 configured to control rotation speed of a motor M of the linear actuator 10 on the basis of a load produced on the link 4 includes a sp...