US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 20 for "Tool stocker, interchangeable tool, robot apparatus, robot system, control method of robot system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,206, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Tool stocker, interchangeable tool, robot apparatus, robot system, control method of robot system, and storage medium" was invented by Hidetada Asano (Yokohama, Japan), Naonori Kayama (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshiyuki Miyazaki (Hiratsuka, Japan), Toshifumi Takahashi (Utsunomiya, Japan), Hiroki Kanai (Tokyo) and Naoto Fukuda (Toride, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool stocker for holding a tool is equipped with a stocker-inclining member that inclines the tool stocker and also equipped with a mechanism that adjusts an attaching/detaching position at which an interchangea...