ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,945, issued on June 3, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Robot system and method for predicting life of regenerative resistor" was invented by Yoshiki Santo (Kobe, Japan), Yasunori Oyama (Kobe, Japan) and Jun Kanzaki (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a motor provided at a joint, a regenerative resistor that consumes a back electromotive force generated by rotation of the motor as heat, and a controller configured or programmed to predict a life of the regenerative resistor based on a period of time during which the regenerative resistor is consuming heat."
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