US Patent Issued to CITIZEN WATCH, CITIZEN MACHINERY on Sept. 30 for "Tooling exchange mechanism and machine tool having the tooling exchange mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,613, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CITIZEN WATCH Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and CITIZEN MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Nagano, Japan).

"Tooling exchange mechanism and machine tool having the tooling exchange mechanism" was invented by Atsushi Aoyagi (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Kazutoshi Kitazawa (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tooling exchange mechanism and a machine tool having the tooling exchange mechanism, in which a load applied to a turret is reduced when exchanging a tooling in the machine tool, are provided with a pressing member 210 of a tooling detachment unit 200 that presses the rear end of a tooling holding unit 10...