US Patent Issued to METALS ENGINEERING on June 10 for "Casting mold shaping apparatus and casting mold shaping method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,062, issued on June 10, was assigned to METALS ENGINEERING K.K. (Takaoka, Japan).

"Casting mold shaping apparatus and casting mold shaping method" 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: "A casting mold shaping apparatus is provided that includes: a pressing member for pressing charged casting sands in a molding space formed by a molding flask and a carrier plate placed on a squeezing table; a driving mechanism for performing driving so as to bring the pressing member and the squeezing table close to each other or separate that...