US Patent Issued to ARNOLD UMFORMTECHNIK on June 17 for "Device and method for inserting an auxiliary joining part into a workpiece, and arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,250, issued on June 17, was assigned to ARNOLD UMFORMTECHNIK GMBH & Co. KG (Forchtenberg-Ernsbach, Germany).

"Device and method for inserting an auxiliary joining part into a workpiece, and arrangement" was invented by Vitalij Janzen (Bad Mergentheim, Germany) and Julian Eder (Satteldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for inserting an auxiliary joining part into a workpiece, having a punch pressing the joining part into a top of the workpiece. The joining part has a shaft pressed into the workpiece and a die contacting a bottom of the workpiece while the joining part is pressed in. The die has a contact region and n...