Patent 7541066 was granted and assigned to Daikin Industries, Ltd. on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention reduces the expense of treating the surfaces of a plate material. This surface treatment method treats the surfaces of a plate material that is rolled with rolling oil and employed as a cooling fin of a heat exchanger, and includes a preparation step and a coating application step. In the preparation step, the plate material is prepared. In the coating application step, a coating is applied to the surface of the plate material without carrying out a degreasing treatment.