US Patent Issued to Shibaura Machine on Jan. 13 for "Surface treatment device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,912, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Shibaura Machine Co. Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Surface treatment device" was invented by Satoshi Fukuyama (Numazu, Japan), Yoshiaki Kurihara (Sunto-gun, Japan), Takeshi Namba (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Koichi Nose (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface treatment device includes a housing unit, a surface treatment element, and a stirring element. The housing unit houses a workpiece. The surface treatment element performs surface treatment on the workpiece housed in the housing unit. The stirring element stirs the workpiece when the surface treatment element performs the surface trea...