Abstract: A water-based electrodeposition dispersion for forming an insulating film contains polymer particles, an organic solvent, a basic compound, and water, the polymer particles are made of polyamide-imide, and the basic compound is a nitrogen-containing compound in which the HSP distance from water is 35 or greater.

Abstract: A water-dispersed electrodeposition solution (11) for forming an insulating film includes: polymer particles; an organic solvent; a basic compound; and water. The polymer particles are made of: any one of; or both of polyamide-imide and polyester-imide, main chains thereof being free of an anionic group, a number-based median diameter D50 of the polymer particles is 0.05 ?m to 0.5 ?m, and polymer particles having a particle size within ?30% to +30% of the number-based median diameter D50 are 50% or more of all of the polymer particles on a number basis.

Abstract: There are provided a plating apparatus and a plating method that allow determining an appropriate replacement timing of a diaphragm. The plating apparatus includes an anode bath, a cathode bath, a diaphragm, an analyzer, and a control device. The anode bath holds a plating solution and an insoluble anode. The cathode bath holds a plating solution containing an additive and a substrate. The diaphragm separates the plating solution held in the anode bath from the plating solution held in the cathode bath. The analyzer is configured to analyze a concentration of the additive in the plating solution in the cathode bath at every predetermined time interval. The control device is configured to calculate an actual consumption of the additive during the predetermined period based on the concentration of the additive analyzed at the every predetermined time interval. The control device includes a memory that stores an expected consumption of the additive during the predetermined period.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a metal microstructure includes forming a non-conductive polymer membrane having a plurality of pores, coating at least one end of the membrane and inner surfaces of the pores with a conductive material to form a conductive coating, electrodepositing a metal on the conductive coating, and dissolving the membrane to obtain a free-standing metal microstructure having at least one metal end plate and multiple elongated metal members extending therefrom.

Abstract: A method for treating electrocoating fluids involves exposing the electrocoating fluid to high-frequency ultrasound while emitting microbubbles into the electrocoating fluid. In further embodiments, the method includes emitting electromagnetic radiation into the fluid. In other embodiment, the method includes routing electrocoating fluid into a compartment. An apparatus for treating electrocoating fluids comprises a compartment (2) configured to hold electrocoating fluid, at least one ultrasound emitter (1) configured to emit high-frequency ultrasound (4) into the compartment (2), and a microbubble emitter (3) configured to emit microbubbles (5) into the compartment (2). In further embodiments, the apparatus may be in fluid communication with an external electrocoating bath. In other embodiments, the apparatus may include an electromagnetic radiation emitter (12), which may emit visible light into the compartment.

Abstract: A device for filtering a processing liquid in a processing tank includes an opening for recovering a surface-layer processing liquid on a work-discharging side of the tank, a separating part for recovering an intermediate-layer processing liquid on a work-receiving side of the tank, a hopper for recovering a bottom-layer processing liquid on a bottom surface on the work-receiving side, a first processing liquid discharge nozzle on a bottom surface of the tank and which is oriented in an opposite direction to a work-conveying direction and toward the bottom surface, second processing liquid discharge nozzles on both side surfaces of the processing tank and which are oriented in an opposite direction to the work-conveying direction and toward a work, cyclone devices which filter the processing liquids recovered by the opening, the separating part, and the hopper, and which individually separate foreign material, a separating tank, and a screw conveyor.

Abstract: A plasmon filter may include an element supportive of plasmon energy and having a plurality of openings through which a material may pass. A system includes a fluid filter supportive of evanescent energy, an evanescent field generator, a sensor, and/or other components. A corresponding method may include generating plasmons on the filter and exposing a material to the plasmon energy.

Abstract: Electrodeposition painting systems may include an electrodeposition bath containing an electrodeposition paint solution, wherein the electrodeposition paint solution is in contact with an electrodeposition bath anode that charges the paint such that it electrocoats parts submerged therein to form electrocoated parts, a rinse tank that rinses the electrocoated parts, wherein a rinse tank reservoir of the rinse tank is capable of fluid communication with the electrodeposition bath, a filter that filters the electrodeposition paint solution to separate filtered water from the paint, and an ionizer assembly including one or more electrodes in contact with the filtered water and a power supply connected to the one or more electrodes, wherein the power supply causes a plurality of electrode ions from the one or more electrodes to enter the filtered water to produce filtered water including electrode ions such that the filtered water including electrode ions flows into and sterilizes the electrodeposition paint solu

Abstract: Method and means for modifying gases or fumes fed through a filter (1), from its inlet side to its outlet side, submitted to an electric plasma having its maximum plasma density (d) at the filter's inlet side. The gases or fumes may comprise NOx, the filter being constituted by a catalytic material fit for modifying NOx. The filter also may be polluted with e.g. a soot deposit, precipitated on the filter's surface and/or within the filter's interior. The means may comprise a first electrode system (2) at the filter's inlet side and a second electrode system (3) at the filter's outlet side, connected to a high voltage (V1). Preferably the first electrode system comprises two or more groups of interlacing electrodes, each connected to a high voltage source (V1, V2, V3).

Abstract: The invention is a method for fabricating molecular filters which can separate objects approximately 1-5 nm in range, where the filtration size is controlled by using thin films of materials and technologies to form a filtration channel or pore in a middle thin film layer in a multilayered structure. Lithography is used to define two offset arrays of blind holes into the opposing sides of a multi-layer membrane. The blind holes extend across a thin central filtration layer. A selective etch is used to attack the filtration layer to form a communicating channel between the two holes. The only connection between one side of the filter and the other is through the channel in the filter layer, whose thickness, d, determines the largest size object which can traverse the filter.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel solution isoelectric focusing device and method that can reproducibly fractionate charged molecules into well-defined pools. This approach can be applied to mixtures of charged molecules, such as eukaryotic proteome samples where reproducible resolution and quantitation of greater than 10,000 protein components is feasible.

Abstract: There is provided an electrodeposition coating apparatus for dipping a body into an electrodeposition coating liquid filled in an electrodeposition tank, which includes a first circulation system for causing a flow direction of the coating liquid in a surface area and an intermediate area through which the body passes in the electrodeposition tank to be opposite to a moving direction of the body, and a second circulation system for causing a flow direction of the coating liquid in a bottom area in the electrodeposition tank to be equal to the moving direction of the body.

Abstract: Electrodeposition (ED) systems and methods are disclosed where acid control is possible without adding acid from outside when acid tends to be depleted. A mixture of high neutralizer removal type membrane electrodes and low neutralizer removal type membrane electrodes are placed in an ED tank. To each of these two types of electrodes separate and independent electrolyte circulation systems are connected. To each of these circulation system are connected each correspondingly first and second electrolyte conductivity control means, each of which works to add D.I. water, as a dilution media, to corresponding electrolyte circulation system, when the conductivity exceeds pre-set reference conductivity values. The reference conductivity set point at which value the second electrolyte control means will add D.I. water to the second electrolyte circulation system preferably is set higher than the reference conductivity set point at which value the first electrolyte control means will add D.I.

Abstract: A method of removing, by oxidation at the anode, the acid liberated in cathodic dip-coating in the course of the deposition of the coating film, using anodes coated with a layer of tin oxide or with a mixture of tin oxide with ruthenium or iridium oxides.

Abstract: A method of removing, by oxidation at the anode, the acid liberated in cathodic dip-coating in the course of the deposition of the coating film, using anodes coated with a layer of ruthenium oxide, iridium oxide or tin oxide or with a mixture of these oxides.

Abstract: One electrode is provided in association with the object to be coated, the other electrode. A pre-stretched ion-exchange membrane in a thin tubular form is sandwiched inbetween two nonconductive water permeable screen tubular housings. The assembly contains a supply line that provides a water way for the electrolyte to flow from the top of the device into a lower cap, then to the lower cap reservoir that allows stabilization and disbursement of electrolyte through the rifled housing Inertia developed through this defined pattern creates a swirling action that scrubs the impurities away from the anode, and to the top of the device to be carried out top. The location of the supply line is just inside the inner screen inserted through both the upper housing and lower cap. The tubular electrode is provided to the inside of membrane housing completing the inner portion of the waterway return chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for treating a surface of an article with a liquid material by dipping. This system includes (a) a major tank having therein the liquid material for dipping the article thereinto; and (b) a circulatory mechanism for circulating the liquid material through the major tank. The circulatory mechanism is arranged to make a flow of the liquid material through the major tank such that the majority of the flow is in one direction that is substantially along the longitudinal direction of the major tank. Thus, contaminants and/or bubbles are not distributed over the entire major tank, but are effectively promptly removed from the major tank. The flow of the liquid material may include a first flow of the liquid material in the major tank and a second flow that is lower than the first flow in position. The first and second flows run substantially in parallel with each other, before the first and second flows reach a downstream end thereof in the major tank.

Abstract: A method of electrocoat painting using tubular guarded membrane electrode cells. An object-to-be-electrocoat painted, or counter-electrode, is positioned or moved into a paint bath. Electrical current flow is induced between the membrane electrode cells and the counter-electrodes through the tubular guard, with the tubular guard having openings of a type that particularly allow for the flow of electricity between the electrode cells and the counter-electrode for a substantially continuous flow of paint particles around the membrane electrode cells. After painting, the counter-electrode is removed from the paint bath. Flushing fluid may be passed through the membrane electrode cells.