US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Oct. 20 for "Robot and workpiece transfer method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,460, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot and workpiece transfer method" was invented by Masayuki Saito (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot that transfers a workpiece includes an arm, a hand, a tilter, and a hand orientation controller. The hand is installed to the arm and holds the workpiece W on a top side of the hand transfers it. The tilter tilts an orientation of the hand. The hand orientation controller tilts the orientation of the hand by the tilter when an acceleration is produced in the hand during a process of holing and transferring the workpiece by the hand so th...