US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on April 15 for "Melting heater and method for manufacturing molded product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,174, issued on April 15, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Melting heater and method for manufacturing molded product" was invented by Akihiro Naito (Tokyo), Takashi Uemura (Tokyo), Ryuki Sakamoto (Tokyo) and Shoso Nishida (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A melting heater configured to melt joining end surfaces of a pair of semi-molded products in a case where the joining end surfaces are melted and joined to manufacture a molded product, the melting heater including: two glass plates arranged in parallel to each other; and a plurality of element heaters arranged in a unit having a flat plate shape a...