US Patent Issued to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS on July 14 for "Control method and control device for robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,669, issued on July 14, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Control method and control device for robot" was invented by Hirokatsu Okumura (Nagano, Japan) and Takahiro Shiraki (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When first arm is connected to a base at a joint point J0, a second arm is connected to the first arm at a joint point J1, a third arm is connected to the second arm at a joint point J2, a hand is connected to the third arm at a joint point J3, a target position of the joint point J3 is designated, and a robot is moved, the joint point J2 is set on a virtual travel axis passing through the join...