US Patent Issued to TAZMO on Sept. 15 for "Joining apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,609, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TAZMO Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Joining apparatus" was invented by Yoshinori Ikagawa (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joining apparatus includes a table, a pressurizing mechanism, a laser light source that emits laser light, and a controller. The table has permeability to the laser light. Two joining targets are to be placed on the table while a first metal layer and a second metal layer face each other. The pressurizing mechanism includes a diaphragm, and is capable of applying pressure to a back surface of the joining target using the diaphragm from an opposite side to the...