US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 19 for "Powder coating device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,717, issued on May 19, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Powder coating device" was invented by Akihiro Horikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiyuki Kojima (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder coating device including: a powder feeder that feeds powder onto a surface of a base material; a squeegee that is disposed to form a gap with respect to the base material and has a surface in contact with the powder fed onto the surface of the base material, the squeegee being configured to adjust a thickness of a powder layer composed of the powder fed onto the surface of the base mat...