US Patent Issued to JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY on Jan. 27 for "Hydrogen isotope concentrating apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,634, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (Tokai-mura, Japan).

"Hydrogen isotope concentrating apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Yasuda (Tsukuba, Japan), Hidehito Asaoka (Tokai-mura, Japan) and Hisayoshi Matsushima (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To obtain deuterium in a gas state from a mixed gas of hydrogen and deuterium at a low cost.A first electrode 11 is an electrode made of a metal allowing hydrogen (H component and D component) to permeate therethrough (hydrogen permeable metal), and the hydrogen permeable metal is Pd, for example. H ions and D ions having permeated through the first e...