ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,205, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Wrist device and joint device" was invented by Naoki Fujioka (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrist device according to one aspect of the present disclosure is mounted on a distal end of a robot arm. The wrist device is provided with a flange including a mounting plate for mounting an external device and a base for rotatably supporting the flange. In the mounting plate, a hole for connecting a tube joint disposed outside the wrist device and a tube joint disposed inside the wrist device is formed."
The patent was filed on March 4, 2022, under ...