US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on Sept. 8 for "Link mechanism for resin-film stretch apparatus, resin-film stretch apparatus, and method of manufacturing resin film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,585, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Link mechanism for resin-film stretch apparatus, resin-film stretch apparatus, and method of manufacturing resin film" was invented by Naoaki Yoshimatsu (Tokyo), Ichiro Nakajima (Tokyo) and Shohei Yamashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performance of a link apparatus is improved. A link mechanism (11C) included in the link apparatus includes, for example, a roller (110A) fixed to a link shaft (40A) via a bracket (100A), the roller (110A) being contactable with a link retainer (70)."

The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2021, under Application No. 18/27...