US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on Oct. 27 for "Injection molding machine and method of providing component replacement recommendation information for injection molding machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,266, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Injection molding machine and method of providing component replacement recommendation information for injection molding machine" was invented by Hirotaka Takedo (Tokyo) and Megumi Otani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molding machine includes a control device configured to estimate a service life for a plurality of managed components among components of an injection molding machine. The control device is configured to manage, for each of the managed components, a usage start date, an estimated service life date, and an estimated lead time...