US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on June 16 for "Control device for substrate transfer robot and control method for joint motor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,317, issued on June 16, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Control device for substrate transfer robot and control method for joint motor" was invented by Hiroki Imanishi (Kobe, Japan) and Shinya Kitano (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls a substrate transfer robot including a hand, a joint, and a joint motor. The control device modifies a target position of the hand when it places substrate at transfer destination, based on positional misalignment information indicating misalignment of substrate. To change a position at which the hand places the substrate to target position after ...