US Patent Issued to AMADA on April 8 for "Press brake and bending method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,083, issued on April 8, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Press brake and bending method" was invented by Shogo Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A press brake is equipped with an upper table provided so as to be vertically movable at an upper part of a main frame and holding a punch tool on a lower side thereof, and a lower table provided at a lower part of the main frame and holding a die tool on an upper side thereof. A pair of slits extending symmetrically in a lateral direction are formed in the lower table, and an end portion of each slit on an outer side in the lateral direction is opened...