US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on May 13 for "Resin cutter, granulator and pellet manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,506, issued on May 13, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Resin cutter, granulator and pellet manufacturing method" was invented by Tetsuya Koiwa (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kawano (Tokyo), Makoto Ishikawa (Tokyo), Soichiro Matsuda (Tokyo) and Mutsushi Harawaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of controlling a cutter-blade pressing force to be a constant force even in employment of a configuration improving a production efficiency of a pellet is provided. In a resin cutter, a controller configured to control the cutter-blade pressing force is configured to variably control each of a revolution number of a rot...