US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU on June 23 for "Workpiece transport device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,704, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Workpiece transport device" was invented by Kazuyuki Hirata (Toyota, Japan), Ryota Sasaki (Toyota, Japan), Masashi Ohara (Nisshin, Japan) and Masato Yasue (Nishikasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device includes a moving mechanism and a plate. The moving mechanism includes a pinion, a conversion mechanism, which converts vertical motion of an upper die assembly into rotational motion of the pinion, and a rack, which is moved as the pinion rotates. The moving mechanism is configured to move, when the rack moves from the top dead cen...