US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 23 for "Control panel for automated system, and robot system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,429, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Control panel for automated system, and robot system" was invented by Takuya Ichise (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroshi Takada (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control panel includes a first controller that performs communication in conformity with an Ethernet standard with a first device via a field network, a second controller that performs safety communication in conformity with an Ethernet standard with a second device that uses a safety signal, a PoE hub that performs PoE power supply to the first device or the second device, and a LAN terminal to...