US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Nov. 11 for "Robot system and robot-system assembling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,084, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot system and robot-system assembling method" was invented by Takeshi Hashimoto (Kakogawa, Japan), Rikuya Uekaji (Kakogawa, Japan), John Bright Prakash (Kobe, Japan) and Shuhei Ishikawa (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a jacket-type sensor including a detector included in a jacket and configured to detect a touch on the jacket; and a sensor wiring-line set configured to transmit a detection result from the detector. The sensor wiring-line set is arranged inside the robot arm."

The patent was filed on March 9, 2022, u...