ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,603, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Control device and control method" was invented by Xiaoguang Ning (Kyoto, Japan), Shigeki Sugano (Tokyo), Tomohiro Wada (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Sakamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, contact between an operator and a robot that moves a workpiece is avoided, and an effect on an article is reduced. This robot controller (1), which controls the operation speed of a robot (2) that moves a workpiece (3), comprises: a prediction unit (11) that predicts contact from the position of a robot and the position of a person or object; and an accel...