ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,669, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Industrial robot" was invented by Ryota Horiuchi (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an industrial robot including a lifting mechanism which lifts and lowers an arm support member and a housing inside which the lifting mechanism is disposed, and an opening part for connecting the arm support member disposed outside the housing with the lifting mechanism is formed in a side face of the housing. In the industrial robot, even when dust generated inside the housing can be prevented from flowing out from the opening part, the cost can b...