US Patent Issued to NSK on Oct. 20 for "Centering tool, centering device, machine tool, method of centering circular workpiece, circular workpiece manufacturing method, ring member manufacturing method, bearing manufacturing method, machine manufacturing method, vehicle manufacturing method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,654, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo).

"Centering tool, centering device, machine tool, method of centering circular workpiece, circular workpiece manufacturing method, ring member manufacturing method, bearing manufacturing method, machine manufacturing method, vehicle manufacturing method, and program" was invented by Shinya Kondo (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centering tool includes: a shank portion having a shaft portion for attachment; a rotating member rotatably supported by the shank portion and having a pair of contacts disposed apart from each other in a direction orthogonal to an axis ...