US Patent Issued to TOYOTA SHATAI on Nov. 18 for "Apparatus for coating an automobile, method for coating an automobile, and computer program product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,528, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA SHATAI K.K. (Kariya, Japan).

"Apparatus for coating an automobile, method for coating an automobile, and computer program product" was invented by Toshiki Kuwayama (Kariya, Japan) and Naohide Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating apparatus includes a discharge unit, a moving unit, and a controller. The discharge unit includes a nozzle array with a plurality of nozzles, and is configured to discharge a coating material from each of the plurality of nozzles. The moving unit is configured to move a position of the discharge unit with respect to a to-be-coated surf...