US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on March 24 for "Mold clamping device, injection molding machine, and offset load inspection method for mold clamping device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,157, issued on March 24, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Mold clamping device, injection molding machine, and offset load inspection method for mold clamping device" was invented by Souma Mitani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold clamping device includes at least two mold platens and a plurality of rod-shaped members connecting two of the mold platens. An offset load detector is provided for at least one of the rod-shaped members at a connection portion between the at least one of the rod-shaped members and at least one of the mold platens. The offset load detector is configured to detect loads at two ...