US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 1 for "Robot system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,288, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot system" was invented by Takahiro Hasegawa (Kobe, Japan), Takashi Takatori (Kobe, Japan), Ryusuke Nishikawa (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroki Suemoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a robot, an attraction pad, a sensor, and a controller. The robot includes a hand whose orientation is changeable. The attraction pad is attached to the hand, attracts a workpiece, and holds the workpiece. The sensor is attached to the hand, includes a detection surface, and detects contact between the detection surface and the workpiece. The cont...