US Patent Issued to KOBELCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Oct. 7 for "Cathode member for electron beam generation, and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,953, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to KOBELCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Cathode member for electron beam generation, and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Kenji Koga (Kobe, Japan), Toshiaki Takagi (Kobe, Japan), Fumiaki Kudo (Kobe, Japan) and Tatsuhiko Kusamichi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The cathode member for electron beam generation of the present disclosure includes: 95% by area or more of a single phase or two phases of a compound composed of iridium and cerium. A total content of one or more subcomponents of metallic iridium and an oxide of one or more elements of iridium and cer...