ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,613, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method of joining resin members" was invented by Kunihito Arai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of joining resin members that includes: forming a coating layer by applying a solvent to a surface of a resin member, the solvent allowing the thermoplastic resin to have a degree of swelling of 1.05 or more and 3.00 or less when the thermoplastic resin is swollen by the solvent, and having a boiling point Bdeg C. of R deg C. or lower where R deg C. is a glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin; laminating resin members one another via the...