US Patent Issued to FANUC on March 4 for "Wrist cover, robot, and wrist cover set" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,104, issued on March 4, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Wrist cover, robot, and wrist cover set" was invented by Ryou Yagihashi (Yamanashi, Japan) and Kouhei Hanatani (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrist cover covers a wrist of a robot. The wrist includes a first wrist element, a second wrist element, and a third wrist element coupled in series and rotatable with respect to one another. The wrist cover includes: a rotating seal member that is fixed to the second wrist element, thereby sealing a ring-shaped gap between the second wrist element and the third wrist element while allowing relative rot...