ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,514, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHIBAURA MACHINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Hybrid core driving device and molding machine" was invented by Mitsutoshi Naito (Ebina, Japan), Makoto Tsuji (Yamato, Japan) and Saburo Noda (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid core driving device of an embodiment includes: a cylinder tube; a first cover member at one end of the cylinder tube; a second cover member at the other end thereof; a rod in the cylinder tube, having a connecting portion at one end to be connectable to a core and an annular flange on the side of the second cover member, and penetrating the first cover member; a nut...