ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,436, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
"Electric gripper" was invented by Chih-Ming Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Hsin-Hsien Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Shang-Wei Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric gripper is disclosed and includes a carrier, an actuator, two dual-lever assemblies and an angle sensor. The actuator is disposed on the carrier and includes a sliding portion. The two dual-lever assemblies are disposed on the carrier and located at two opposite lateral sides of the sliding portion. Each of the two dual-lever assemblies includes a driving lever, a limiting le...