ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,298, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JEOL Ltd. (Tokyo).
"MAS apparatus" was invented by Fumio Hobo (Tokyo), Yusuke Tanimoto (Tokyo), Yuki Endo (Tokyo) and Hiroki Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An angle adjustment mechanism has a block, a projecting piece, and a connection mechanism. The projecting piece is fixed to a stator. The connection mechanism has elongated holes provided in the block and a shaft member provided in the projecting piece. The shaft member is inserted in the elongated holes. During a tilt angle adjustment process, the shaft member is caused to move in a sliding motion in the elongated holes. Duri...