ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,419, issued on April 22, was assigned to METALS ENGINEERING K.K. (Takaoka, Japan).
"Electric squeeze device" was invented by Kouichi Shimomura (Takaoka, Japan), Daisuke Funaki (Takaoka, Japan) and Yuso Kanehira (Takaoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric squeeze device is provided and includes: an electric squeeze device includes: a squeezing frame that applies a pressurizing force to the casting sands, a swing arm that is positioned on an upper side of the squeezing frame and reciprocates at a predetermined angle with respect to a rotation center; a link having one end side connected to a position of a radius of rotati...