ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,704, issued on July 8, was assigned to CHUGAI RO Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Coating apparatus and coating method" was invented by Tsutomu Nishio (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a coating apparatus where a coated object W is moved relative to an application nozzle 10 located above the coated object, and a coating liquid P is applied to a surface of the coated object via a slit-shaped discharge port 12 at a distal end of the application nozzle. In a coating liquid reservoir 11 storing the coating liquid therein, a coating liquid feeder 14 formed with a coating liquid holding recess 14a in a predetermined pattern ...