US Patent Issued to FANUC on Dec. 16 for "Rotating shaft structure provided with force sensor, and robot" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,731, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Rotating shaft structure provided with force sensor, and robot" was invented by Kazutaka Nakayama (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary shaft structure includes an actuator having an output shaft for rotationally driving a driven body, a force sensor which is arranged between the output shaft and the driven body and which detects a force exerted between the output shaft and the driven body, and a flexible deformation body which is in contact with the output shaft and the driven body, wherein the entirety of the force sensor is sealed by t...