ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,142, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ENGEL AUSTRIA GMBH (Schwertberg, Austria).
"Drive unit for a molding machine" was invented by Roland Weilig (Baumgartenberg, Austria) and Christoph Balka-Hintersteiner (Schwertberg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit for a molding machine for longitudinally displacing a movable first machine component relative to a second machine component, includes a rotationally drivable spindle mounted in a linear movement-locking manner on the second machine component, a spindle nut arranged in a rotational movement-locking manner on the first machine component for positive-locking engageme...