US Patent Issued to Incoe on March 25 for "Hot-runner assembly with internally cooled axially mounted electric actuator" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,751, issued on March 25, was assigned to Incoe Corp. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Hot-runner assembly with internally cooled axially mounted electric actuator" was invented by Scott Greb (Washington Township, Mich.), Anton Joerg (Grossostheim, Germany) and Christian Striegel (Hessen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-runner injection molding apparatus that facilitates use of electric actuators in a compact design includes a hot-runner manifold defining resin channels for conveying resin to nozzles that serve as conduits for introducing liquid resin into a mold cavity, a valve pin configured for linear movement along a longitud...