ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,470, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and ADEKA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Photocurable adhesive" was invented by Kazuma Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan), Takao Izumi (Kariya, Japan), Keisuke Ota (Kuki, Japan), Kohei Hirayama (Kuki, Japan), Shinsuke Yamada (Kuki, Japan) and Ryo Ogawa (Kuki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a photocurable adhesive having good deep-section curability. A photocurable adhesive is formulated to be curable by laser light irradiation. The photocurable adhesive contains an epoxy adhesive component and titanium black. The content of the titanium black is 1 ppm by mass or more...