US Patent Issued to NIDEK on Feb. 18 for "Dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus and dyeing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,018, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NIDEK Co. LTD. (Aichi, Japan).

"Dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus and dyeing system" was invented by Ryoji Shibata (Aichi, Japan), Minoru Inuzuka (Aichi, Japan), Koji Abe (Aichi, Japan) and Motoshi Tanaka (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus manufactures a dye-deposited base body. The dye-deposited base body is used in a dyeing step of dyeing a resin body. A dye to be transferred to the resin body is deposited to a base body. The dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus is provided with a printing device, a conveyanc...