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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akito Inoue, Chofu, JP;
Assignee:
Polytechs, Inc., Tachikawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2041808 ; 2042 / ; 204301 ;
Abstract
An electrodeposition painting cell and method utilizing a membrane electrode cell and membrane monitoring capability is disclosed. In the disclosed cell and method, the article to be painted constitutes the first electrode, and a second electrode is provided by a membrane electrode cell. An electrical current detection device and an electrical potential sensing device provide inputs to a computing device, which computes membrane resistance or membrane voltage drop, with the results thereof utilized to assess membrane degradation. A novel voltage sensing probe and method of use thereof also is disclosed.