Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Exterior décor panel for home appliance and method of manufacturing the same
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Application No.: US14533295Application Date: 2014-11-05
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Publication No.: US09746765B2Publication Date: 2017-08-29
- Inventor: Wonseok Choi , Taihun Lim , Seonkyu Kim , Bonghyang Kim
- Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: KR10-2013-0135452 20131108
- Main IPC: C25F3/16
- IPC: C25F3/16 ; C25F3/02 ; C25F7/00 ; G03F7/00 ; C25F3/20 ; C25F3/24 ; F25D23/02

Abstract:
Manufacturing an exterior décor panel for a home appliance includes laminating a photosensitive dry film on a front surface of a metal sheet, the photosensitive dry film having a higher etch resistance than the metal sheet against an electrolytic solution, photo-masking the photosensitive dry film attached to the metal sheet to create a pattern having a minimum width of 0.1 mm in the photosensitive dry film to thereby expose the front surface of the metal sheet corresponding to the pattern in the photosensitive film, electrolytic-polishing the photo-masked metal sheet by dipping the photo-masked metal sheet in an electrolytic bath to allow the electrolytic solution to contact the exposed front surface of the metal sheet and form the pattern in the front surface of the metal sheet, and performing post-treatment on the metal sheet, the post-treatment including washing and removing the photosensitive dry film.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150132598A1 EXTERIOR DÉCOR PANEL FOR HOME APPLIANCE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2015-05-14
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