US Patent Issued to SEKISUI CHEMICAL on Sept. 15 for "Surface modification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,465, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Surface modification method" was invented by Eiji Miyamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Masato Akahori (Kyoto, Japan), Hideki Kondo (Kyoto, Japan) and Mamoru Hino (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The adhesiveness of a treatment target made of a fluorine-based hard-to-adhere material is improved. A process gas containing any one or two or more among carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, water vapor, ethanol, propanol, hexanol, ethylene glycol, and ammonia is supplied from a process gas supply unit 10 to a plasma generation unit 20. In the plasma g...