ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,320, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Threadlike adhesive sticking apparatus and method for sticking threadlike adhesive" was invented by Atsushi Takashima (Ibaraki, Japan), Tomohiro Taruno (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hiromitsu Morishita (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threadlike adhesive sticking apparatus of the present invention includes, a nozzle comprising a pressing unit configured to press a threadlike adhesive against an object, a nozzle displacement unit that is attached to the nozzle and is configured to displace the nozzle by being displaced in a pressing direction, and an a...