US Patent Issued to GIKEN on March 25 for "Pile press-in construction method, pile supplying device, and pile press-in device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,724, issued on March 25, was assigned to GIKEN LTD. (Kochi, Japan).

"Pile press-in construction method, pile supplying device, and pile press-in device" was invented by Masaaki Ono (Kochi, Japan), Toshihiko Murata (Kochi, Japan), Yasuhiro Tanaka (Kochi, Japan) and Yoshihiro Morioka (Kochi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pile press-in construction method uses a pile press-in device having a saddle, a clamp device grasping a top of an existing pile, a mast, a raising and lowering device, and a chuck device supported by the mast and holding a pile. The pile press-in device generates a reaction force by griping the existing pile...