US Patent Issued to Universal Robots on Nov. 25 for "Strain wave gear with output flange and integrated encoder" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,568, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Universal Robots A/S (Odense S, Denmark).

"Strain wave gear with output flange and integrated encoder" was invented by Steffen Henrik Johansen (Odense S, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strain wave gear includes an outer ring and an inner ring rotatably arranged in the outer ring. The inner ring includes an internally toothed gear and a flex spline is arranged in the inner ring and includes a flexible part that includes an external toothed gear. A wave generator is rotatable in relation to the flex spline and is configured to flex the flexible part in a radial direction to partly mesh ...