ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,717, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Bending system, and divided tool arrangement method" was invented by Yousuke Onagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuho Mochida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Katsumi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gathering operation includes a restraint operation of moving forward a left lower tool retention member so as to restrain a reference lower tool with the left lower tool retention member, an inserting operation of moving forward a right lower tool retention member so as to insert the right lower tool retention member into an insertion hole of a target lower ...