US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 3 for "Position inspection system, component assembly system, and position inspection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,967, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Position inspection system, component assembly system, and position inspection device" was invented by Akihiro Kimura (Toyota, Japan), Hiroshi Bito (Toyota, Japan), Fuminori Saito (Nagoya, Japan) and Reoto Uetake (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position inspection system includes a gripping unit that grips an object, a shooting unit that shoots an inspection image of the object gripped by the gripping unit, and a processor. The processor identifies a first rotational amount of the object from the proper position within a plane of the inspect...