US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on July 14 for "Workpiece holding device and workpiece conveyance device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,901, issued on July 14, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Workpiece holding device and workpiece conveyance device" was invented by Syoji Suzuki (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a workpiece holding device including: a plurality of first claw portions capable of linearly moving in a direction parallel to a predetermined plane; a second claw portion and a third claw portion disposed to face each other in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined plane; and a motion conversion mechanism portion that converts a linear motion associated with movement of the first claw portion into a linear ...