US Patent Issued to KITAMURA MACHINERY on April 29 for "Machining center NC operation panel with body temperature management function" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,618, issued on April 29, was assigned to KITAMURA MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Takaoka, Japan).

"Machining center NC operation panel with body temperature management function" was invented by Akihiro Kitamura (Toyama, Japan), Kosaku Kitamura (Toyama, Japan) and Toshihisa Tanada (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining center NC operation panel with a body temperature management function includes a visible range image camera and an infrared detection camera on a front surface of an operation panel. A storage unit has: an operator list; a face image file; and a body temperature management file for machine tool users and body-tem...