ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,135, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NITTA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Gripping device and industrial robot" was invented by Itaru Hatano (Yamatokoriyama, Japan), Atsushi Matsumoto (Yamatokoriyama, Japan) and Shunsuke Iwata (Yamatokoriyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripping device includes a partition film that is elastically deformable, a vacuum pump (deformation unit) that elastically deforms the partition film, and a cylindrical gripping portion that extends from the peripheral edge of the partition film and is elastically deformed in the central axis direction along with the elastic deformation of the partition film to ...