US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Oct. 7 for "Phosphor element, phosphor device, and illumination apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,336, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Phosphor element, phosphor device, and illumination apparatus" was invented by Jungo Kondo (Miyoshi, Japan), Naotake Okada (Anjo, Japan), Shoichiro Yamaguchi (Ichinomiya, Japan), Tetsuya Ejiri (Kasugai, Japan) and Yuichi Iwata (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phosphor element includes an incident face for an excitation light, an emitting face opposing the incident face and a side face, and the element converts at least a part of the incident excitation light incident onto the incident face to fluorescence and emits the fluorescence from the emi...