US Patent Issued to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus for manufacturing coated film using suction rolls for tension control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,755, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus for manufacturing coated film using suction rolls for tension control" was invented by Ryo Ishiguro (Tokyo) and Satoru Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated film having good characteristics is manufactured. A method for manufacturing the coated film includes: (a) a step of applying a coating liquid 20a to a first surface of a base material 1 unwound from an unwinding unit UW; (b) a step of forming a coating layer 3b on the first surface of the base material 1 by drying the coating liquid (coating film 3a) on the base material 1; a...