US Patent Issued to Universal Robots on June 17 for "Obtaining the gear stiffness of a robot joint gear of a robot arm" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,306, issued on June 17, was assigned to Universal Robots A/S (Odense S, Denmark).

"Obtaining the gear stiffness of a robot joint gear of a robot arm" was invented by Emil Madsen (Aarhus C, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining the gear stiffness of a robot joint gear of a robot joint of a robot arm, where the robot joint is connectable to at least another robot joint. The robot joint comprises a joint motor having a motor axle configured to rotate an output axle via the robot joint gear. The method comprises the steps of: -applying a motor torque to the motor axle using the joint motor; -obtaining the angular p...