ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,931, issued on May 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fastener painting system and method of painting fastener" was invented by Tomohiro Miyauchi (Tokyo) and Yohei Matsumoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener painting system is a system for painting a head of a fastener. The system includes: a cup for covering the head of the fastener by contacting an edge of the cup with a surface of the object; a supply system; a liquid discharging system; and a moving mechanism. The cup has a cavity for being filled up with paint. The supply system is configured to store the paint and supply the paint into the cavity of the c...