US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha, Toyota Battery, Prime Planet Energy & Solutions on May 26 for "Coating device having a coating die configured to discharge a coating liquid onto a workpiece" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,672, issued on May 26, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan), Toyota Battery Co. Ltd. (Kosai, Japan) and Prime Planet Energy & Solutions Inc. (Tokyo).

"Coating device having a coating die configured to discharge a coating liquid onto a workpiece" was invented by Taichi Urakami (Nisshin, Japan), Seiji Ishizu (Toyota, Japan), Yu Ichino (Kariya, Japan), Masakazu Umehara (Toyota, Japan), Naohiro Ishizuka (Sendai, Japan) and Naoya Kishimoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating device includes a backup roll configured to transport a workpiece; a coating die configured to discharge a coating liquid onto the w...