US Patent Issued to DAIWA CAN on Aug. 26 for "Painting method and painting apparatus for band material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,314, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DAIWA CAN COMPANY (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Painting method and painting apparatus for band material" was invented by Miki Iwasa (Sagamihara, Japan), Nobuyasu Seki (Sagamihara, Japan), Chikako Miyagawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Kenji Kawahara (Sagamihara, Japan) and Yasushi Enoki (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A painting method and a painting apparatus for a band material that prevent a printing defect during a long-time operation by preventing agglomeration and adhesion of a thixotropic paint in a paint pan is disclosed. The liquid paint is discharged to the paint pan as a jet flow f...