US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on Dec. 16 for "Strand manufacturing apparatus and pellet manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,746, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Strand manufacturing apparatus and pellet manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Yohei Fukuzawa (Tokyo), Yusuke Fukushi (Tokyo) and Hideki Tomiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strand manufacturing apparatus capable of reducing variations among diameters of resin strands without stopping the operation of an extruder is provided. A strand manufacturing apparatus includes a die in which an outflow hole for discharging a resin material contained in an extruder as a string-shaped resin strand is formed, an adjustment valve configured to adjust openi...