US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on April 15 for "Base frame for injection molding machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,177, issued on April 15, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Base frame for injection molding machine" was invented by Kazuma Yamanaka (Yokosuka, Japan) and Masaki Ogawa (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base frame is used in an injection molding machine provided with a mold clamping unit having a platen, on which at least the mold clamping unit is placed and which supports the mold clamping unit. The base frame includes: a pair of main beams spaced apart from each other in a width direction of the base frame and extending side by side in a longitudinal direction of the base frame; and a platen att...