US Patent Issued on Sept. 30 for "Workpiece carriage, and machine tool and manufacturing cell having such a workpiece carriage" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,612, issued on Sept. 30.

"Workpiece carriage, and machine tool and manufacturing cell having such a workpiece carriage" was invented by Martin Zimmer (Rheinau, Germany) and Gunther Zimmer (Rheinau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece carriage for workpiece transport includes a guide unit oriented in a longitudinal direction, a drive unit having an electrical supply and a drive motor, and a workpiece gripping unit having two clamping jaws movable relative to one another. A machine tool includes at least one workpiece table, with at least one tool unit movable relative to the workpiece table and with at least two workpi...