US Patent Issued to TMEIC on March 17 for "Floating joint and ultrasonic vibration joining apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,980, issued on March 17, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Floating joint and ultrasonic vibration joining apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Ichinose (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating joint includes a driving side coupling portion and a driven side coupling portion serving as first and second connections. A pressure adjusting structure in the floating joint is provided between the bottom surface exposed region of the spherical portion for contact and the bottom surface facing region of a fixing ring without a gap, and has elasticity. Therefore, the floating joint relatively firmly maintains the one-side spherical...