US Patent Issued to Yamaha Robotics on Nov. 25 for "Mounting device, and method for detecting degree of parallelism of mounting device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,762, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Yamaha Robotics Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Mounting device, and method for detecting degree of parallelism of mounting device" was invented by Yuichiro Noguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this method for detecting a degree of parallelism of a mounting device: a triangular pin is arranged at a point A on a placement surface of a stage; a mounting head is lowered, and a height of the mounting head when a holding surface comes into contact with a tip end of the triangular pin is detected using an encoder, after which the triangular pin is moved to a point B and the mounting head is lowered; t...