US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 6 for "End effector with linkage mechanism having arm portions and grip portions" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,436, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"End effector with linkage mechanism having arm portions and grip portions" was invented by Takeru Shirasawa (Susono, Japan), Atsushi Ushirone (Hiratsuka, Japan), Hana Ishihara (Gotemba, Japan), Yuya Takiguchi (Gotemba, Japan), Taiga Muramatsu (Susono, Japan), Yukiyasu Domae (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Takase (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector includes: a linkage mechanism coupled to a tip of a robot arm. Further, the linkage mechanism includes openable and closable arm portions provided on a tip side of the linkage mechanism, and grip portions acqu...