US Patent Issued to Atlas Copco IAS on June 3 for "Device for applying viscous material to workpieces" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,790, issued on June 3, was assigned to Atlas Copco IAS GmbH (Bretten, Germany).

"Device for applying viscous material to workpieces" was invented by Heiko Bitzel (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Bastian Prinz (Bruchsal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for applying viscous material to workpieces includes a rotary lance in a holder apparatus and rotatable about a longitudinally-extending rotation axis, the lance having at least one material outlet. A needle valve associated with each material outlet has a longitudinally-extending valve needle used to close each material outlet on a valve seat. Each valve needle has an associated...