US Patent Issued to FANUC on Jan. 20 for "Control device for robot performing mastering through torque or force control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,201, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Control device for robot performing mastering through torque or force control" was invented by Nobuaki Yamaoka (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a robot according to the present invention controls a drive motor for one specific drive shaft of the robot such that the torque output by a torque detector matches a torque setting value when rotation of a component member is inhibited by a rotation inhibiting unit. The control device acquires a rotational position output by a rotational position detector of the specific drive shaft ...