US Patent Issued to OTTO MANNER on March 11 for "Injection mold with a valve pin and actuator assembly" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,478, issued on March 11, was assigned to OTTO MANNER GMBH (Bahlingen, Germany).

"Injection mold with a valve pin and actuator assembly" was invented by Patrick Kern (Endingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection mold includes an actuator assembly, which further includes an actuator plate for moving at least one valve pin during production in an axial direction and a valve pin coupling device. The valve pin coupling device allows a manually controllable coupling and decoupling of the actuator plate and the valve pin."

The patent was filed on Oct. 2, 2020, under Application No. 17/769,187.

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