ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,768, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Robot and hand orientation adjustment 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 an arm, a hand, a substrate orientation acquirer, a hand orientation adjuster, and a control unit. The hand is installed to the arm and holds and transfers the substrate. The substrate orientation acquirer acquires information about an orientation of a to-be-transferred su...