US Patent Issued to MITUTOYO on Sept. 8 for "Automatic inside-diameter measuring apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,944, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MITUTOYO Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Automatic inside-diameter measuring apparatus" was invented by Yuhei Takatsu (Saitama, Japan), Masashi Yamaji (Hiroshima, Japan), Yuya Arashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Chihiro Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuji Hayashida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic measuring apparatus includes an inside-diameter measuring unit that measures the inside diameter of a workpiece, a robot arm part, and a control unit. The inside-diameter measuring unit is installed with the tip side facing upward. A cone-shaped guide cone is provided at the tip of the in...