Abstract
Junkosha Inc. (Ibaraki, Japan) has bee n issued patent number 12095243, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors. The patent's inventors are Hiraoka, Daiki (Ibaraki, JP), Hirose, Tetsuya (Ibarak i, JP), Misu, Yasuhiro (Ibaraki, JP), Takeuchi, Hiroshi (Ibaraki, JP). This patent was filed on June 20, 2023 and was published online on September 17, 2024. From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the following quote: "BACKGROUND ART "A robot traveling device for gripping and conveying workpieces such as a proces sing material, a wafer and a substrate is incorporated into various processing a pparatuses such as a machining line, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a manufacturing apparatus for a display apparatus, and an electronic component mou nting apparatus. In the robot traveling device, for example, a robot that handle s a workpiece is mounted on a traveling bogie that reciprocates on a track. By o perating a hand of an arm of the robot, the workpiece can be gripped in the hand , and the workpiece can be attached to and detached from each processing machine .