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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News – From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx journalists rep ort that a patent by the inventors Busuttil, Peter L. (Troy, MI, US), filed on A ugust 9, 2021, was published online on September 24, 2024. The patent’s assignee for patent number 12097548 is KUKA Systems North America L LC (Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “Robotic manipulators and other computer-controlled machine s are increasingly used to automate the assembly of component parts into an end product. As a non-limiting example, the manufacture of automobiles is convention ally accomplished using assembly lines having an increasing number of assembly p rocesses and operations performed by automated machinery. U.S. Pat. No. 7,117,70 6 to Savoy discloses a tool that can be supported on a multi-axis industrial rob otic manipulator for forming attachment pads in sheet material, such as automoti ve body panels, to facilitate joining component parts to the panels during autom ated assembly. While the tool disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 7,117,706 is suitable f or forming pads in mild steel, which is generally very ductile, the tool is not suitable for forming attachment pads in high strength sheet metal, such as high strength alloy steels, because these materials are generally not well suited to cold forming.
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