US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Dec. 2 for "Robot and substrate orientation examination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,534, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot and substrate orientation examination method" was invented by Ippei Shimizu (Kobe, Japan), Hiroyuki Okada (Kakogawa, Japan), Daisuke Yamanaka (Oshu, Japan), Takahiro Abe (Fuchu, Japan) and Junichi Sato (Oshu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot that transfers a substrate includes a hand, an arm, a substrate detector, and a substrate orientation examiner. The hand holds and transfers the substrate. The arm is connected to the hand moves the hand. The substrate detector detects absence or presence of the substrate in a non-contact manner. The sub...