US Patent Issued to JUKI on April 29 for "Joining jig and joining apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,745, issued on April 29, was assigned to JUKI Corp. (Tama, Japan).

"Joining jig and joining apparatus" was invented by Takayuki Shiina (Tama, Japan), Norihisa Shiraishi (Tama, Japan) and Takaaki Iijima (Tama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a joining jig for disposing a sheet-shaped adherend on one surface side of a sheet-shaped material, folding back the adherend in an end edge portion of the sheet-shaped material, and causing adhesion of an end edge portion of the adherend on the other surface side of the sheet-shaped material, by a tip portion of an attachment piece pivoting in the end edge portion of a placement surface of...