ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,648, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Robot with changeable position of body with respect to a vehicle portion" was invented by Shota Narasaki (Tokyo), Noboru Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Hayato Hoshino (Tokyo), Yosuke Tomida (Tokyo) and Shingo Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robot includes two arms, a body, a vehicle portion, and a body position changing mechanism. Body position changing mechanism includes an elevation angle changing mechanism that supports body such that an elevation angle with respect to a vehicle portion reference plane is changeable, and an azimuth angle changing mechan...