ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,387, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Liquid transfer device for forming liquid film on a surface of a transfer table" was invented by Hiroyasu Ohashi (Toyota, Japan), Toshihiro Nonomura (Toyota, Japan) and Masaaki Senzaki (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid transfer device includes a transfer table, a squeegee, and a squeegee holding mechanism. The transfer table has a bottom surface on which a liquid film is formed and transfers a liquid to a transfer target by immersing the transfer target in the liquid film. The squeegee is disposed above the transfer table and pushes and spreads...