ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,919, issued on April 14, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Slot-type spray nozzle, coating device, and manufacturing method of film-coated member" was invented by Kota Sasaki (Otsu, Japan), Ryuta Sakashita (Otsu, Japan), Kohei Ueda (Otsu, Japan) and Kiyoshi Minoura (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slot-type spray nozzle includes: a plurality of coating fluid discharge ports arranged in one direction; and a pair of air discharge ports continuously or intermittently opened in a vicinity of the coating fluid discharge ports in a width direction, the width direction being the one direction, the air discharge p...