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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:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
YKK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
118702 ; 118698 ;
Abstract
In a method and an apparatus for plating a plurality of kinds of works, an unattended route-free vehicle transports the works to a number of processing tanks to immerse the works in the processing tanks. A controller calculates a processing time of the processing tanks and a transporting time needed for the vehicle to transport the works to the processing tanks and renders the vehicle to transport one kind of the works during the immersion-processing of another kind of the works, thereby performing the plating process of a plurality of kinds of works one after another.