US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 7 for "Machine tool and protective member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,392, issued on July 7, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Machine tool and protective member" was invented by Naoto Mizuno (Kariya, Japan), Nobuaki Ishibashi (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Tsuji (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshihito Yasui (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the disclosure, a plate-shaped fixing cover (30) is fixed to a lower part of a main shaft head (6). The fixing cover (30) protects a moving mechanism inside a column (5) from chips and the like. When the main shaft head (6) is positioned at an uppermost end of a movement range, a moving cover (40) covers and protects a portion of the column (5) th...