ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,829, issued on May 20, was assigned to Edwards Japan Ltd. (Chiba, Japan).
"Detoxification device and inlet nozzle" was invented by Nobuo Mori (Chiba, Japan), Mitsunori Abe (Chiba, Japan) and Masahiro Tanaka (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detoxification device has an inlet nozzle capable of reducing an amount of a deposit of an adhering metallic product and elongating a maintenance cycle and a detoxification device including the inlet nozzle. The inlet nozzle includes a portion adjacent to a combustor, that is cut (removed) in advance. Consequently, in the portion, an insulator made of a ceramic material is exposed. Si...