US Patent Issued to TOYO AUTOMATION on July 22 for "Wrist mechanism for a mechanical arm" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,101, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYO AUTOMATION Co. LTD. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Wrist mechanism for a mechanical arm" was invented by Kun-Cheng Tseng (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi-An Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Fong-Ting Yan (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chung-Ho Chen (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrist mechanism includes a first rotation unit, a second rotation unit, a first brake pad, and a first brake plate. The first rotation unit includes a first motor, a first rotating shaft that is connected to the first motor, and a first encoder. The first motor is operable to drive the first rotating shaft to rotate about a first axis. The ...