ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,439, issued on March 17, was assigned to SANOH INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Tube bending system" was invented by Yuichi Kotaki (Ibaraki, Japan), Atsushi Takahashi (Ibaraki, Japan), Ru Yi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Shenghua Luan (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tube bending system for bending a processing target tube that includes a metal tube and two flare nuts into a specific shape, with the tube bending system including a bending machine and a tube delivery unit. The tube delivery unit includes a shift-to-end mechanism that performs a shift-to-end manipulation on the processing target tube to move the two flare nuts to ...