ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,346, issued on March 31, was assigned to Taikisha Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Paint apparatus and filter module" was invented by Takuya Sekigawa (Tokyo) and Tomotaka Miwa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The paint apparatus includes a paint booth having an upper chamber in which a painting operation is performed and a lower chamber placed below the upper chamber; a receiving portion 2 that receives air discharged from the paint booth; a filter module 3 attachable to and detachable from the receiving portion 2 and including filter portions 31 and 32 that trap paint mist from air that passed through the receiving portion 2, a filter inlet por...