US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on March 31 for "Robot hand, robot, robot system, and transfer method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,508, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot hand, robot, robot system, and transfer method" was invented by Hideshi Yamane (Kobe, Japan), Shoichi Miyao (Kobe, Japan) and Hirohito Morioka (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot hand is a robot hand to transfer an article, which includes a holder to move the article in a first direction while holding the article, a driving belt having a transferring surface on which the article is placed and driven to move the transferring surface in the first direction, and a first driver to drive the driving belt. The holder moves in the first dir...