US Patent Issued to CHIRON Group on Sept. 15 for "Tool changing device for a machine tool and manufacturing system" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,629, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CHIRON Group SE (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Tool changing device for a machine tool and manufacturing system" was invented by Markus Kohler (Immendingen, Germany) and Dylan Maret (Martigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool changing device for a machine tool comprises a handling unit comprising a handling robot, an interchangeable tool magazine, and a provisioning site for the tool magazine. The handling unit comprises a tool gripper for gripping tools. The tool magazine is configured as an upright disk magazine with a vertical rotation axis. The tool magazine is detachably mounte...