By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week — From Washington, D.C., VerticalNews journalists report that a patent application by the inventors Shimizu, Toshiyuki (Okazaki-shi, JP); Kobayashi, Masao (Okazaki-shi, JP); Nishikawa, Kenji (Okazaki-shi, JP); Otani, Seiji (Okazaki-shi, JP); Nishikawa, Takaya (Okazaki-shi, JP); Takeda, Manabu (Okazaki-shi, JP), filed on July 27, 2012, was made available online on May 29, 2014.
The patent’s assignee is Ricoh Elemex Corporation.
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a screw thread including a process for partly removing an apex of a ridge in an incomplete thread part formed in a threaded fastener by screw thread cutting. The invention further provides a threaded fastener.(…)
