ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,465, issued on May 13, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Parallel link robot and robot system" was invented by Hyunchul Souk (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel link robot includes a base unit, a movable part disposed below the base unit, a plurality of arms that connect the base unit and the movable part in parallel, and a wrist shaft that penetrates through the movable part along an axis extending in a vertical direction and is driven and rotated about the axis with respect to the movable part. A jig mount for detachably mounting a positioning jig is provided on one of an upper surface of the ...