ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,981, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon Virginia Inc. (Newport News, Va.).
"Conveyance apparatus for conveying mold" was invented by Yuichi Yanahara (Moriyama, Japan), Hiroyuki Katagiri (Gamou, Japan), Hideo Matsumoto (Moriyama, Japan), Nobunari Shimoe (Moriyama, Japan), Jun Tainaka (Higasiomi, Japan) and Mao Sato (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance apparatus for conveying a mold into an injection molding machine includes a frame configured to form a supporting plane for supporting the mold, and an actuator configured to move the mold along the supporting plane between a first position inside the injection mo...