ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,821, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Demolding device" was invented by Shoji Tada (Kobe, Japan), Masaki Takahashi (Kobe, Japan) and Shimpei Tokuno (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A demolding device that removes a thin-walled part from a mold, the thin-walled part being tubular and having a partially open wall, the demolding device including: contour units that are located in a circumferential direction of the thin-walled part and each of which includes a contact structure that contacts an outer surface of the thin-walled part and moves in a thin-walled surface outward direction ext...