US Patent Issued to Sintokogio on Oct. 6 for "Robot tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,418, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichii, Japan).

"Robot tool" was invented by Takumi Kobayashi (Aichi, Japan), Shuhei Tomioka (Aichi, Japan), Takuya Aikawa (Aichi, Japan) and Yoshifumi Takikawa (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a robot tool capable of aligning a screw or a gauge with a screw hole even if a position and angle of a screw mating surface are slightly shifted. A robot tool includes: a shaft member provided with, at at least one end thereof, a gauge that inspects a diameter of a screw hole or a bit that tightens and loosens a screw; a motor accommodating, in a cylindrical motor ...