ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,761, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Automatic tool exchanger" was invented by Kazuya Asakawa (Toyota, Japan) and Toshifumi Suzuki (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to be suitable for space-saving of a multi-functional processing machine in which a tool main spindle device is disposed at a center of an opposed biaxial lathe, there is provided an automatic tool exchanger provided in the multi-functional processing machine, the automatic tool exchanger including: a tool magazine that is disposed in a machine body front surface upper portion of the multi-functional processing machine ...