ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,071, issued on April 14, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).
"Mold clamping method for an injection molding machine" was invented by Souma Mitani (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold clamping device includes two mold platens; a ball screw mechanism connecting the mold platens to each other, the ball screw mechanism being provided with an axial force detector configured to detect an axial force acting on the ball screw mechanism; a servo motor provided on the ball screw mechanism and configured to drive the ball screw mechanism; and a control device configured to: monitor the axial force detected by the axial ...