Patents by Inventor Haruhiko Ichimura

Haruhiko Ichimura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus for controlling application of excess coating liquid in curtain coating and method of coating
    Patent number: 5773093
    Abstract: The subject of the present invention is to control the generation of the contamination of a coating apparatus and web tearing which originate in an excess portion of coating color produced when commencing and terminating the coating in curtain coating. Means for solving the subject described above is a curtain coating apparatus in which a curtain film 5 flowing down vertically from a lip head 3 is allowed to contact a continuously running web 9 to form a coated layer, wherein a receiving pan 1 in which at least a coating plate disposed at the tip thereof can move in the running direction of the web 9 is disposed under the lip head 3; the coating plate 2 is connected with one end of the receiving pan 1; and the tip of the coating plate 2 has a function of being capable of sliding in a contact state with the web 9 in commencing and terminating the coating of the curtain film 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Kameo Mitani, Haruhiko Ichimura