ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,555, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Inclination adjusting device and robot provided with the same" was invented by Ippei Shimizu (Kobe, Japan) and Yoshiki Maeda (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least three spherical surface sliding bearings provided between a first member and a second member and disposed at mutually different positions when seen in the height direction, are provided. Each of the at least three spherical surface sliding bearings has an inner ring and an outer ring, either one of the inner ring and the outer ring is attached to the first member, and the other is att...