ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,314, issued on May 20, was assigned to TSUDAKOMA KOGYO K.K. (Ishikawa-Ken, Japan).
"Loom" was invented by Keiichi Myogi (Ishikawa-ken, Japan), Koichi Tamura (Ishikawa-ken, Japan) and Tomoya Hayashi (Ishikawa-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loom includes a rotary shaft bridged to a pair of side frames with being supported via bearings each provided in corresponding one of the side frames, the rotary shaft includes: solid shaft-shaped shaft parts supported by corresponding one of the side frames; and a hollow pipe-shaped main body part located between the shaft parts. The loom includes a bearing structure provided in at lea...