US Patent Issued to KYOTO SEISAKUSHO, CHUGAI SEIYAKU on Dec. 23 for "Parts supply device and parts transfer system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,275, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KYOTO SEISAKUSHO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan) and CHUGAI SEIYAKU K.K. (Tokyo).

"Parts supply device and parts transfer system" was invented by Yuta Imai (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroaki Higashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Hideaki Hosaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parts supply device includes a stage having a placement surface on which a plurality of parts is placed, an imaging system configured to image the plurality of parts from an obliquely upward direction with respect to the placement surface of the stage, and a parts detection unit configured to detect positions and orientations of the plurality of...