US Patent Issued to SANYO MACHINE WORKS on Oct. 21 for "Nut runner control system has a tightener that is provided with marker and camera remotely images the marker to detect position of the tightener" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,593, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SANYO MACHINE WORKS LTD. (Aichi, Japan).

"Nut runner control system has a tightener that is provided with marker and camera remotely images the marker to detect position of the tightener" was invented by Hisashi Ryota (Aichi, Japan) and Shigenori Onishi (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system 100 for a tightener (nut runner 10) of the present invention includes a marker M provided on the tightener, a camera 31 (32) that remotely images the marker M and detects a position of the tightener, and a controller that stores a target tightening torque value of a plurality of tight...