ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,120, issued on April 14, was assigned to TAIKISHA LTD. and FU-SE VACUUM FORMING LTD..
"Coating apparatus" was invented by Yoshio Higashi (Suita, Japan), Yukiya Takizawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Seidai Watanabe (Yamato, Japan), Yoichi Kumon (Habikino, Japan) and Hitoshi Okamoto (Habikino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating apparatus including: a plurality of first gripping units configured to grip a first side of a film conveyed above a work to be coated, the plurality of first gripping units being aligned along the first side; a plurality of second gripping units configured to grip a second side of the film opposing the first ...