ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,346, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Workpiece holding device" was invented by Gerhard Wagner (Prichsenstadt, Germany), Fred Menig (Sulzthal, Germany), Martina Sticht (Sennfeld, Germany) and Michael Wendel (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece holding device for holding a workpiece in a heat treatment system while the workpiece undergoes a thermal expansion and/or contraction includes at least two clamping units configured to apply a radial and/or an axial clamping force to the workpiece to hold the workpiece in the workpiece holding device in a predefined position and a ...