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BLASnNG MEDIUMUS. Patent 6,010,546. Jan. 4, 2000H. Hirano et al., assignors to AsahiGlass Co. Ltd., Tokyo

A blasting medium composed of agranulated product, which com­prises a water-soluble inorganicacid salt as the main component.

SPRAYBOOTH VENnLAnNGSYSTEMUS. Patent 6,010,562. Jan. 4, 2000P.J. Flynn, Geneseo, Ill.

A painting system using a desic­cant dehumidifier for conditioningand removing VOCs from the ven­tilation air to be returned to thespraybooth.

EXHAUST SYSTEM FOR A POWDERBOOTHUS. Patent 6,010,571. Jan. 4, 2000L.E. Josefsson et al., assignors toABB Flexible Automation Inc.,Auburn Hills, Mich.

An overspray exhaust system foruse in a floor of a paint spraybooth.

ALUMINUM SPUTTER TARGOUS. Patent 6,010,583. Jan. 4, 2000S. Annavarapu et al., assignors toSony Corp. Tokyo, and MaterialsResearch Corp., Orange, NY.

A method of making a high­performance, high-density sput­ter target.

VAPOR DEPOSlnON PROCESSUS. Patent 6,010,600. Jan. 4, 2000S.P. Vernon, and NM. Ceglio,assignors to The Regents of theUniversity of California, Oakland,Calif

A maskless deposition techniquefor the physical vapor depositionof thin film and multilayer coat­ings with subnanometer precisionand accuracy.

METHOD FOR ELECTROPLATINGPARTICULATESUS. Patent 6,010,610. Jan. 4, 2000P. Yih, Lakewood, Ohio

A method of electroplating partic­ulates in a metallic electrolyte so-

January 2001

lution within an electroplating de­vice having an anode and a cath­ode plate comprising at least onecycle of operation having at leastthree essentially independentsteps performed separately and insequence consisting of stirring,sedimentation, and electroplatingwith the sedimentation step oc­curring over an essentially quies­cent time interval with essen­tially no current flow through theelectrolyte and essentially no stir­ring so as to form a sedimentationlayer of loosely contacted particu­lates on the cathode plate.

ELECTRODEPOSlnON COATEDMEMBERUS. Patent 6,010,774. Jan. 4, 2000S. Kadokura and T. Kato, assignorsto Cannon K.K., Tokyo

An electrodeposition coated mem­ber comprising a substrate and anelectrodeposition coating filmformed thereon by electrophoreticaction using an electrodepositioncoating material comprised of aresin and fine particles dispersedtherein, wherein the fine particleshave a porosity of 80% or higher.

RESIST COMPOSITIONS FORPLAnNGU.S. Patent 6,010,823. Jan. 4, 2000A Goto and Y. Ono, assignors toIbiden Co. Ltd., Gifu Pref., Japan

A resist composition for platingcomprising an uncured novolacepoxy resin in which a part of theepoxy group is acrylated as a pho­tosensitive resin ingredient; animidazole curing agent; an acrylicester polymer; and benzophenoneand Michler's ketone dissolved ina solvent of glycol ether or N­methyl pyrrolidone,

RADlAnON-CURABLE COAnNGCOMPOSlnONUS. Patent 6,011,078. Jan. 4, 2000W. Reich et al., assignors to BASFAG, Ludwigshafen, Germany

An aqueous, radiation-curable

coating composition comprrsmg5.0 to 90.0% by weight of at leastone water-dispersible polymercomprising at least one unsatur­ated, radiation-polymerizabledouble bond; 0.1 to 90% of at leastone radiation-curable compound,which is soluble in water or isdilutable with at least 10% byweight of water; 0 to 20% byweight of a photoinitiator; 0 to60% by weight of a filler; 0 to 20%by weight of further additives;and water to 100% by weight.

UV-CURABLE POWDER COAnNGUS. Patent 6,011,080. Jan. 4, 2000A T. Daly et al., assignors to MortonInternational Inc., Chicago

A nonhazing UV-curable powdercoating containing crystalline res­Ins.

GRAVITY-FED SPRAY GUNASSEMBLYUS. Patent 6,012,651. Jan. 11, 2000M.W.A Spitznagel, Los Angeles

A gravity-fed spray gun assemblyof the type having a nozzle assem­bly, a spray gun body assembly,and a nozzle nut for adjusting therelative angular orientation of thenozzle assembly relative to thespray gun body assembly.

POWDER SPRAY GUNUS. Patent 6,012,657. Jan. 11, 2000AJ. Knobbe et al., assignors toNordson Corp., Cleveland

An apparatus for use in applyingcoating material to an object, com­prising a spray head throughwhich a flow of coating material isconducted toward an object, saidspray head having a long thin out­let through which the flow of coat­ing material is conducted, and anelectrode assembly for use in es­tablishing an electrical field.

PARTICLE BLASTING NOZZLEUS. Patent 6,012,975. Jan. 11, 2000A Jaeger, Senden-Hittistetten,Germany

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