US Patent Issued to NHK SPRING on Feb. 17 for "Workpiece holding device and inspection device comprising workpiece holding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,989, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Workpiece holding device and inspection device comprising workpiece holding device" was invented by Koichi Fukushima (Yokohama, Japan) and Akira Honma (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece holding device includes a workpiece support surface and a blow suction unit. The workpiece support surface includes suction holes formed therein. A workpiece placed on the workpiece support surface is adsorbed by the suction holes. The blow suction unit includes an ionizer that ionizes gas (for example, air), a jet outlet that jets the gas toward t...