US Patent Issued to ZUIKO on Jan. 13 for "Absorbent body production device and absorbent body production method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,282, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ZUIKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Absorbent body production device and absorbent body production method" was invented by Takahiro Shimada (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absorbent body production device and an absorbent body production method can suppress scattering of an absorbing substance during spraying of the absorbing substance to a substrate. A substrate is conveyed along a rotating outer circumferential surface of a conveyance drum. A granular absorbing substance is discharged from a spray port of a spray apparatus facing the outer circumferential surface of the conveyanc...