US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on June 2 for "Substrate conveying robot and control method for substrate conveying robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,238, issued on June 2, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Substrate conveying robot and control method for substrate conveying robot" was invented by Satoshi Hashizaki (Kobe, Japan) and Shinya Kitano (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate conveying robot includes a controller configured or programmed to acquire a conveyance gap based on an image captured by an imager, and control at least one of carrying a substrate out of a storage or carrying the substrate into the storage based on a size of an acquired conveyance gap."

The patent was filed on Aug. 17, 2022, under Application No. 18/291,706.

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