ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,811, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Noritake Co. Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Heat treatment apparatus" was invented by Hidenori Nakamura (Nagoya, Japan), Hideki Yonekawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroshi Ishida (Nagoya, Japan), Hideaki Ohi (Nagoya, Japan) and Masanobu Kato (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a heat treatment apparatus includes a heating treatment unit that heat-treats a strip-shaped sheet while transferring the strip-shaped sheet, and a cooling unit that cools the strip-shaped sheet having been heat-treated in the heating treatment unit while transferring the strip-shaped sheet. T...