US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Heavy Industries on June 30 for "Intermediate mold, mold unit, and injection molding machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,006, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Intermediate mold, mold unit, and injection molding machine" was invented by Takayuki Sato (Chiba, Japan) and Rei Takahashi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate mold is disposed between a stationary side mold and a movable side mold in a mold unit of an injection molding machine, the intermediate mold includes: a mold section that performs mold opening and closing operations with a facing mold of the stationary side mold and the movable side mold; a rotating frame body that is rotated together with the mold section by a rotary sha...