US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on May 27 for "Intermittent valve and intermittent coating apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,402, issued on May 27, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Intermittent valve and intermittent coating apparatus" was invented by Takanori Maruo (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Wakiya (Osaka, Japan) and Amiri Kisaragi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermittent valve includes: a valve main unit having: an inflow chamber, a supply chamber and a return chamber; a piston; a supply valve allowing a coating material to flow from the inflow chamber to the supply chamber when the piston is in a first position and blocking the flow when the piston is in a second position; and a return...