ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,795, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. (Saitama, Japan).
"Box forming apparatus" was invented by Hisashi Osada (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opening arm has a thickness smaller than a clearance between a pair of flaps that are formed adjacent to each other in one plate-like portion of a pair of plate-like portions of a cardboard sheet folded like a plate. The pair of plate-like portions face each other. A moving portion moves the opening arm. In a state where the opening arm is inserted in the clearance G1 between the pair of flaps, the opening arm faces a flap that is formed in another ...