US Patent Issued to KOMATSU INDUSTRIES on Oct. 6 for "Laser blanking device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,376, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KOMATSU INDUSTRIES Corp. (Ishikawa, Japan).

"Laser blanking device" was invented by Yoshihiro Yamaguchi (Ishikawa, Japan), Hikaru Nishikawa (Ishikawa, Japan) and Koji Masauji (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser blanking device includes a machining room, a laser head movable in first and second orthogonal directions, a trap part movable with the laser head in the first direction, a trap hopper disposed on a side of a first lateral surface of the machining room to trap dust produced by cutting, and a suction part connected to the trap hopper to suck the dust moved from the trap ...