US Patent Issued to OBARA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 27 for "Replacing and holding device for electrode tip" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,460, issued on May 27, was assigned to OBARA Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Replacing and holding device for electrode tip" was invented by Takehiro Izumi (Fuefuki, Japan), Yoshinori Ando (Fuefuki, Japan), Tsubasa Mochizuki (Fuefuki, Japan), Masahiro Kimura (Fuefuki, Japan) and Masayuki Fujiwara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replacing and holding device includes an electrode tip puller including two stacked pick plates inserted between an end face of an electrode tip fitted into a shank fixed to a gun arm of a welding gun and an end face of a larger diameter portion of the shan...