US Patent Issued to OILES on Sept. 29 for "Floating cutter unit and trimming press processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,591, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to OILES Corp. (Tokyo).

"Floating cutter unit and trimming press processing device" was invented by Hideki Kiriaki (Fujisawa, Japan), Junichi Tanahashi (Fujisawa, Japan) and Satoshi Abe (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention makes it possible to obtain a fine finish along a trim line in a plate material while preventing scoring between a floating cutter and a main trimming press upper. A floating cutter unit is provided with: a floating cutter for cutting scrap from a plate-shaped material, said floating cutter being attached to and used in a trimming press process...