US Patent Issued to YKK on July 8 for "Electroplating device and method for manufacturing plated product" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,930, issued on July 8, was assigned to YKK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electroplating device and method for manufacturing plated product" was invented by Masayuki Iimori (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electroplating apparatus includes an electroplating tank that stores an electrolyte solution in which at least objects to be electroplated and magnetic media sink, and at least one magnetic rotator rotatably arranged under the electroplating tank so as to generate an alternating magnetic field. The magnetic rotator is arranged to section an internal space of the electroplating tank into a first space occupying a spa...