ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,647, issued on March 11, was assigned to NSK LTD. (Tokyo).
"Table device" was invented by Kenichiro Wada (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A table device includes a ball screw including a male screw member extending in an axial direction and a female screw member meshing with the male screw member and movable in the axial direction according to rotation of the male screw member, a slide device that movably supports the female screw member, and a fixing member to which the slide device is fixed. The fixing member includes a first wall section extending in a first direction and a second wall section extending in a second...