US Patent Issued to NITTOKU on June 30 for "Wire winding device and wire winding method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,302, issued on June 30, was assigned to NITTOKU Co. LTD. (Saitama-City, Japan).

"Wire winding device and wire winding method" was invented by Shinji Sugimoto (Nakatsugawa, Japan) and Takayuki Hasebe (Nakatsugawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire winding device includes: a rotary plate rotationally driven by a electric motor; a pair of columnar members provided on the rotary plate such that a rotation center axis of the rotary plate is positioned between the columnar members; the winding core respectively attached to the pair of columnar members; and a holding mechanism capable of changing and holding a gap distance between...