US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on June 16 for "Machine tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,268, issued on June 16, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Machine tool" was invented by Isao Hikita (Nara, Japan), Akihisa Aoyama (Nara, Japan) and Tetsushi Asada (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a tool magazine (10) storing a plurality of tools (T), a turret (3) to which a plurality of tools (T) are attached, and a tool changer (20) changing a tool (T) attached to the turret (3) for a tool (T) stored in the tool magazine (10). The tool changer (20) has two tool grippers for gripping tools (T) and replaces tools (T) attached to the turret (3) with one another using the two too...