ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,089, issued on July 15, was assigned to THK Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Workpiece holding apparatus" was invented by Yoshikazu Komiya (Tokyo) and Yukihiro Takeya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece holding apparatus includes: a main body; at least one shaft member capable of coming into contact with a workpiece; a clamping device into which the shaft member is inserted, the clamping device being attached to the main body and capable of switching between an unclamping state that releases the shaft member and a clamping state that clamps the shaft member; and a trigger member configured to switch the clamping device between the un...