ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,270, issued on June 16, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).
"Feed apparatus" was invented by Yoshihiko Nakajima (Nara, Japan) and Shinya Kidani (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes two guide rails (15, 16) arranged in parallel in a feeding direction, sliders (17, 19, 21, 23) arranged on the guide rails (15, 16), a movable carriage (3) mounted on the sliders (17, 19, 21, 23) and moved in the feeding direction, and a drive mechanism (11) moving the movable carriage (3). The present invention further includes a scale arranged along the feeding direction on the guide rails (15, 16), read...