ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,256, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Panel assemble apparatus" was invented by Yongchul Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Minje Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A panel assemble apparatus includes: a marriage jig frame, a plurality of alignment units installed in the marriage jig frame to align a main panel part to a predetermined position on the marriage jig frame, and a plurality of external force application units installed on the marriage jig frame to induce elastic deformation in the main panel part and form a marriag...