US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo, KAWASAKI ROBOTICS (USA) on June 17 for "Substrate transfer apparatus" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,387, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan) and KAWASAKI ROBOTICS (USA) INC. (Wixom, Mich.).

"Substrate transfer apparatus" was invented by Masaya Yoshida (Kobe, Japan), Yuji Tanaka (San Jose, Calif.) and Hajime Nakahara (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate transfer apparatus includes a base, an arm, an end effector provided at a tip of the arm and having first and second tip portions that are bifurcated, a light emitting unit, a light receiving unit, and a control device controlling an operation of the arm. The control device controls an operation of the arm so that light strai...