ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,825, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lipptsadt, Germany).
"Device for automated production of screw connections" was invented by Ingo Engler (Soest, Germany), Frank Jagow (Erwitte, Germany), Ludger-Josef Grune (Hoxter, Germany), Miguel Lebrato-Rastrojo (Paderborn, Germany) and Thomas Albert Robbecke (Erwitte, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for automated production of screw connections includes an industrial robot with an output member rotatable about an effector axis (W) relative to an end member. A screwing unit is at least indirectly connected to the output member and rotatable by the outp...