ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,772, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOSYS Co. Ltd. (Incheon, South Korea).
"Nut pickup and fastening device for automatic tire mounting" was invented by Sang Pill Kim (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nut pickup and fastening device for automatic tire mounting includes a nut setting unit that arranges a plurality of nuts to align with the bolt arrangement of the wheel disk of a vehicle body, and a pickup fastener coupled to the tip of a robot arm. The pickup fastener may include a tool frame unit, a plurality of nut runners provided on the tool frame unit corresponding to the set nuts and configured to provid...