ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,651, issued on July 29, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Dalian, China).
"Clamping system and adaptive clamping method for turning of thin-walled curved components" was invented by Yuwen Sun (Liaoning, China), Shuyang Yan (Liaoning, China) and Shutao Qi (Liaoning, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a clamping system and an adaptive clamping method for turning of thin-walled curved components. A curved component is positioned and clamped on the upper surface of the vacuum adsorption fixture, and a rubber sealing ring on an auxiliary support of the fixture is in contact with the inner c...