US Patent Issued to DISCO on Aug. 4 for "Expanding machine and expanding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,963, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Expanding machine and expanding method" was invented by Kaoru Amano (Tokyo) and Yoshinobu Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expanding machine for expanding a sheet having a workpiece bonded on the sheet. The expanding machine includes an expansion mechanism configured to expand the sheet, a cooling unit that cools the workpiece bonded on the sheet, and a temperature distribution detection unit that, before expanding the sheet by the expansion mechanism, detects a temperature distribution of the workpiece cooled by the cooling unit. A method for expanding a sheet...