US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on Sept. 15 for "Crankshaft shape inspection method, arithmetic unit, program, and shape inspection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,876, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Crankshaft shape inspection method, arithmetic unit, program, and shape inspection apparatus" was invented by Yoshito Isei (Tokyo), Kousuke Sakai (Tokyo), Shinya Ikeda (Tokyo) and Yuki Usutani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crankshaft shape inspection method includes: acquiring three-dimensional point cloud data of a surface of a crankshaft S; superposing the three-dimensional point cloud data on a surface shape model of the crankshaft S; moving the three-dimensional point cloud data superposed on the surface shape model to match with a coordinate system ...