ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,153, issued on March 24, was assigned to ENTEGRIS INC. (Billerica, Mass.).
"Method for overmolding a tubular structure" was invented by David Schroeder (Bloomington, Minn.), Michael A. Thompson (St. Peter, Minn.), Alain Crosfield (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Douglas Wenell (North Branch, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for overmolding a tubular structure including inserting a core pin into the tubular structure so that at least a portion of a main body of the core pin extends at least partially out of the tubular structure. The method further includes clamping the tubular structure to a mold cavity structure in an Z-direc...