ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,908, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Shibaura Machine Co. Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Surface treatment apparatus and surface treatment method" was invented by Mitsunori Kokubo (Numazu, Japan), Satoshi Fukuyama (Numazu, Japan), Yoshiaki Kurihara (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Takeshi Namba (Sunto-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a surface treatment apparatus, a conveyance device houses a placement device having a treated member placed thereon, into a housing unit. A rotation device rotates the treated member to face a direction facing a surface treatment device in a predetermined rotation pattern, in a state in which the placem...