ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,971, issued on May 6, was assigned to Canon Virginia Inc. (Newport News, Va.) and Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).
"Injection molding system" was invented by Koki Kodaira (Tokyo), Yuichi Yanahara (Moriyama, Japan), Yohei Minatoya (Tokyo) and Junko Tajima (Amsterdam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection molding system includes an injection molding apparatus that performs injection molding with a die and a conveyor apparatus on one side of the injection molding apparatus that inserts the die into the injection molding apparatus, where the conveyor apparatus includes an actuator connectable to the die. The injection molding sys...