US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES POWER ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS on April 15 for "Electrostatic precipitator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,018, issued on April 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES POWER ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Electrostatic precipitator" was invented by Kazutaka Tomimatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaya Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Takao Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasutoshi Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic precipitator includes a collecting electrode provided along a gas flow direction, including a plurality of openings being formed in the collecting electrode, and a discharge electrode arranged in parallel with the collecting electrode. The discharge electrode includes a plurality of corona discharge...