US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on Sept. 29 for "Tool transport device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,628, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Tool transport device" was invented by Koji Tanaka (Nara, Japan), Hiroshi Yasuda (Nara, Japan) and Hiromitsu Nakaoka (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool transport device includes a moving device, a tool attachment/detachment robot (30), a tool holding device (20), and a controller and transports a tool body (TB) between a tool magazine of a machine tool and a tool storage device. The tool attachment/detachment robot (30) and the tool holding device (20) are arranged on a moving platform (15) of the moving device, and the moving device moves the...