US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 15 for "Paint flow monitoring method for robot systems in mixed explosion-safety zones" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,539, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Paint flow monitoring method for robot systems in mixed explosion-safety zones" was invented by Shusaku Yamaguchi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a painting robot system that monitors paint flow in environments with differing explosion safety classifications. The system includes a paint supply source, a sending-out device, and a painting robot arranged across first and second explosion-safe areas, with a paint channel extending through a non-explosion-safe zone. A noncontact flowmeter is positioned in the non-explosion-s...