ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,581, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HORIBA LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Diluter, analysis system, and analysis method" was invented by Shota Sando (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Mizuno (Kyoto, Japan), Jun Tomita (Kyoto, Japan) and Hirotaka Iseki (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To uniformly dilute particulate matter contained in a sample gas, a diluter includes an inflow portion, a mixing portion, a discharge portion, a connection portion, and an introduction portion. The inflow portion allows a sample gas to flow in. The mixing portion has an inner diameter larger than that of the inflow portion, and mixes the sample gas with a dil...