US Patent Issued to TAKATORI on Sept. 2 for "Sheet connection device, sheet connection method, and sheet replacement system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,134, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TAKATORI Corp. (Nara, Japan).

"Sheet connection device, sheet connection method, and sheet replacement system" was invented by Yoshiaki Ueda (Nara, Japan) and Yuji Ozaki (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sheet connection device (1) includes: adhesive rollers (10, 10); a joining unit (20) and a cutting unit (30); and feed rollers (40, 40). The cutting unit (30) is capable of forming a connected end portion (SE2) by cutting the second bonding sheet (S2). The adhesive rollers (10, 10) separate the first bonding sheet (S1) into an adhesive sheet (SA) and a release sheet (SP) to form a...