公开(公告)号：US20170342565A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-30

申请号：US15599473

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.

Inventor： Masaru OHNISHI ,  Toshiya ITO

IPC: C23C18/02 ,  C23C18/06 ,  C23C18/04 ,  C23C18/12 ,  C09D11/101

CPC classification number: C09D11/101 ,  C23C18/1605 ,  C23C18/1608 ,  C23C18/1653 ,  C23C18/1662 ,  C23C18/1692 ,  C23C18/1806 ,  C23C18/1831 ,  C23C18/1844 ,  C23C18/1855 ,  C23C18/1879 ,  C23C18/1893 ,  C23C18/2013 ,  C23C18/2086 ,  C23C18/22 ,  C23C18/285 ,  C23C18/30 ,  C25D5/02 ,  C25D5/022

Abstract: The present invention provides a plating method capable of easily performing various decorative plating processes. The plating method includes a bulge forming process of forming a bulge on an object to be plated by ejecting ink drops of first UV-curable ink from an inkjet head such that the ejected ink drops land on the object, and a plating process of plating the object having the bulge formed thereon, after the bulge forming process. Also, in the bulge forming process, the bulge is formed such that a second surface of the bulge to be plated has surface roughness different from that of a first surface of the object to be plated.