ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,760, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MEIDENSHA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Zinc oxide element" was invented by Yuya Komatsu (Tokyo), Atsushi Seki (Tokyo), Masayuki Takada (Tokyo) and Yukio Tagami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a zinc oxide element which does not contain antimony oxide and has good nonlinear resistance characteristics (V10 kA/V1 mA nonlinearity) by controlling the particle size of zinc oxide particles in a sintered body. The zinc oxide element of the present invention includes a fired body containing zinc oxide, bismuth oxide, and zinc stannate (Zn2SO4). A method for producing a zinc oxide element of the p...