US Patent Issued to Sintokogio on July 15 for "Automatic application device and automatic application method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,131, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).

"Automatic application device and automatic application method" was invented by Yoshikane Tanaami (Nagoya, Japan) and Miyuki Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic application device includes: a robot arm; an application hand configured to apply, to a workpiece, a paint that is a liquid; a force sensor configured to detect a force and a moment acting on the application hand; and a control section configured to control the robot arm in accordance with a parameter calculated from an output signal from the force sensor."

The patent was f...