ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,691, issued on March 24, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Industrial robot" was invented by Tamotsu Kuribayashi (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The industrial robot includes a hand, and a support member that supports the hand. The hand includes a connecting portion that configures a base end portion of the hand is connected to the support member, a loading portion that configures a tip end portion of the hand on which the conveying target is to be loaded, and a plurality of sensing mechanisms that sense the conveying target for correcting a position of the hand. The sensing mechanisms are trans...