US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 17 for "Coating device having first and second temperature controlled flow paths for coating a glass fiber and coating method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,153, issued on March 17, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Coating device having first and second temperature controlled flow paths for coating a glass fiber and coating method" was invented by Kazumasa Oishi (Osaka, Japan) and Satoshi Yoshikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating device includes: a fiber passage through which a glass fiber passes downward in a vertical direction; a first flow path which is a flow path allowing a primary resin to flow toward the fiber passage and includes a first branch path horizontally dividing the primary resin moving in a horizontal direction; ...