US Patent Issued to Shibaura Mechatronics on July 15 for "Heat treatment device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,801, issued on July 15, was assigned to Shibaura Mechatronics Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Heat treatment device" was invented by Yuichi Imaoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Mochizuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kyota Kuroiwa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akinori Iso (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a heat treatment device includes: a chamber capable of maintaining an atmosphere that is decompressed from an atmospheric pressure; an exhaust unit capable of exhausting an inside of the chamber through an exhaust port provided in the chamber; a support portion provided inside the chamber and c...