US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on Nov. 18 for "Spring constant correction device, method therefor, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,624, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Spring constant correction device, method therefor, and recording medium" was invented by Takashi Yamada (Kobe, Japan), Yoshiharu Nishida (Kobe, Japan), Yoshihisa Tamase (Kakogawa, Japan), Naoki Kida (Fujisawa, Japan) and Kenichiro Kanao (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring constant correction device and method measure a position and attitude of a distal end of an articulated robot when the articulated robot is operated in a state where elastic deformation is compensated, compare measurement values of the position and attitude of the distal en...