US Patent Issued to SMC on March 31 for "Vacuum suction cylinder assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,509, issued on March 31, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Vacuum suction cylinder assembly" was invented by Shinichi Yoshimura (Moriya, Japan), Minehiko Mita (Joso, Japan) and Masaki Morimoto (Tsukubamirai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of vacuum suction cylinders are connected to each other by using tie rods inserted into insertion holes penetrating side walls of a cylinder tube of each vacuum suction cylinder, insertion holes provided in a first flow path block, and insertion holes provided in a second flow path block, and sandwiching between the first flow path block and the second flow path bloc...