US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Jan. 13 for "Sealant application apparatus and method of producing sealant applied product" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,891, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sealant application apparatus and method of producing sealant applied product" was invented by Yohei Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealant application apparatus includes a seal gun, a distance meter, a moving mechanism and a controller. The seal gun has a nozzle for discharging sealant toward a fastener. The distance meter is fixed to the nozzle. The distance meter measures a distance from a measurement position to a surface of the sealant. The moving mechanism moves the seal gun relatively to the fastener. The controller controls the moving mechanism ...