ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,209, issued on June 17, was assigned to METALS ENGINEERING K.K. (Takaoka, Japan).
"Casting mold shaping device 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 device is provided, comprising a turntable-type carrier plate replacement device; a molding flask carry-in/out device for carrying in a molding flask to a molding space forming position provided in the carrier plate replacement device and carrying out the molded molding flask; a molding flask carrier plate stacking device f...