US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Oct. 7 for "Horizontal articulated robot and substrate transfer system comprising same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,378, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Horizontal articulated robot and substrate transfer system comprising same" was invented by Junichi Matsuoka (Kobe, Japan), Masaru Yamasaki (Kobe, Japan) and Yuichiro Tanaka (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot 100 includes: a base 1; an arm 3 coupled to the base 1 to be rotatable horizontally and formed by links 30 coupled to one another to be rotatable horizontally; and a hand 8 coupled to the arm 3 to be rotatable horizontally. A first link 31 that is at least one link of the links 30 has an internal space 40. The first link 31 has a partiti...