US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on Aug. 5 for "Film and substrate having surface covered with same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,432, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Film and substrate having surface covered with same" was invented by Masamichi Morita (Osaka, Japan), Hiroki Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Atsushi Sakakura (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuki Hosoda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a film that has high water slidability, and a substrate having a surface covered with the film. The present disclosure provides a film having the properties of a sliding velocity of 150 mm/s or more at an inclination angle of 30deg and an average surface roughness (Ra) of 1 micro me...