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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,678, issued on Sept. 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 that holds a plate-shaped member having flexibility includes: a first suction structure that sucks the plate-shaped member; a second suction structure that sucks the plate-shaped member and is turnable and movable; a turning device that turns the second suction structure and a moving device that moves the second suction structure. When th...