ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,473, issued on April 15, was assigned to MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/S (Odense S, Denmark).
"Mobile robot with adjustable traction weights" was invented by Lasse Bak Elleskov Jensen (Broby, Denmark) and Lars Hjorth Hansen (Tommerup, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a basic mobile robot (1) where the weight on the drive wheels (6) can be adjusted in order to achieve the optimal traction and braking performance of the mobile robot (1) for the relevant application. With the inventive design of the bogie arm (4) and the modular traction weights (9), the gravitation forces and resulting friction acting...