ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,057, issued on May 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Force sensor diagnostic device and robot control device" was invented by Takatoshi Iwayama (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force sensor diagnostic device that diagnoses a force sensor provided in a robot, the force sensor disposed near an installation surface on which the robot is installed and detecting a force and a moment applied to the robot from an outside. The device includes a calculation unit that calculates a theoretical value of the force and a theoretical value of the moment detected by the force sensor, a determination unit that det...