US Patent Issued to AMADA on March 18 for "Single-sheet lifter" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,367, issued on March 18, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Single-sheet lifter" was invented by Hiroshi Iwanaga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-sheet lifter includes a base frame arranged in a vicinity of a loading area and extending vertically, a separation unit configured to separate an uppermost workpiece from a plurality of the workpieces loaded in the loading area by means of at least one of an injection pressure of air and a suction force, and a counter balancer configured to reduce a weight acting on the separation unit. The separation unit is provided to the base frame so as to be ab...