US Patent Issued to AIKAWA IRON WORKS on Nov. 11 for "Refiner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,201, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AIKAWA IRON WORKS Co. LTD. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Refiner" was invented by Makoto Goto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Makoto Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refiner for beating a raw material supplied between a stator beating part and a rotor beating part, and discharging the beaten raw material, the refiner including a rotating shaft, the rotor beating part attached to the rotating shaft, a motor configured to drive the rotating shaft; and a motor control part configured to variably control a rotation of the motor. The rotation of the motor of the rotor beating part is controlled ...