US Patent Issued to A.L.M.T. on June 16 for "Irregularly-shaped die" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,213, issued on June 16, was assigned to A.L.M.T. Corp. (Tokyo).

"Irregularly-shaped die" was invented by Akihito Ono (Hyogo, Japan), Kohichiroh Kimura (Hyogo, Japan) and Yuichiro Seki (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an irregularly-shaped diamond die for producing an irregularly-shaped wire, wherein a processing hole is provided, the processing hole having a reduction portion and a bearing portion in this order from an upstream side in a wire drawing direction, a corner portion having a curved shape and a non-corner portion located at a position different from a position of the corner portion are provide...