US Patent Issued to KOBE STEEL on Sept. 30 for "Heat-collecting member and agricultural house" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,250, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Heat-collecting member and agricultural house" was invented by Koji Uematsu (Kobe, Japan), Akio Sugimoto (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroki Okada (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat collector includes a body including a hollow portion extending from a first end to a second end of the body and being a metal-extruded body having a light-receiving surface to receive sunlight, a pair of lids adjacent to the first end and the second end and covering the hollow portion, an inlet located in one of the pair of lids to allow a heating medium to enter the hollow po...