ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,471, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Forming system and forming method" was invented by Yuki Kawada (Tokyo) and Junya Yamada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forming system includes a trim blade 7 for cutting off a sheet material 2 provided between a lower die 60 and an upper die 66, a first lower plate 81 provided outside a first lower die end 60a in a side view of the lower die 60, and a first upper plate 85 provided outside an upper die end 66a, configured to reciprocatively move together with the upper die 66 and extending toward the first lower plate 81. A cut plane of the blade 7 inter...