US Patent Issued to NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY on March 24 for "Adaptive tool holder for robotic arm" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,054, issued on March 24, was assigned to NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY (Chiayi, Taiwan).

"Adaptive tool holder for robotic arm" was invented by Pai-Chen Lin (Chiayi, Taiwan) and Zhen-Wei Zhuang (Chiayi, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive tool holder of a robotic arm includes: a tool shank; a hollow barrel seat, connected below the tool shank; a ball spline with an upper section, an outer convex ring and a lower section; a spring seat, disposed within the barrel seat and located on the upper section of the ball spline; an elastic element, disposed within the barrel seat, where both ends of the elastic element abut ag...