US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on June 16 for "Shut-off nozzle of vertical injection molding machine, injection device, and vertical injection molding machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,372, issued on June 16, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Shut-off nozzle of vertical injection molding machine, injection device, and vertical injection molding machine" was invented by Kiyotaka Nakayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shut-off nozzle of a vertical injection molding machine includes: a nozzle portion attached to a lower portion of a vertical injection device and having an injection flow path and a needle hole; a needle valve movably insertable into the needle hole; a cylinder component driving the needle valve; a bracket supporting the cylinder component at a rear end; a fixing device fixi...