US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on June 23 for "Hand robot system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,796, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Hand robot system" was invented by Yohei Murase (Kobe, Japan), Hiroaki Fukuda (Kobe, Japan), Tamami Oryu (Kobe, Japan) and Hisao Wada (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand includes a hand body in which a predetermined first reference axis is defined, a gripper in which a predetermined second reference axis is defined and which grips a workpiece, and a coupler that couples the gripper to the hand body. The coupler includes at least one of a decentering supporter that supports the gripper such that the second reference axis is capable of being de...