US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Dec. 30 for "Holding device, control method, control device, and robot system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,722, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Holding device, control method, control device, and robot system" was invented by Satoshi Ouchi (Kobe, Japan), Yuna Takahashi (Kobe, Japan) and Kazunori Hirata (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding device includes: a first suction structure that sucks a main member; and a first grasping structure that is arranged adjacent to the first suction structure in a direction intersecting with a first direction and grasps a first auxiliary member. The first suction structure is directed so as to suck the main member located in the first direction, an...