US Patent Issued to NICHIA on July 29 for "Rare earth aluminate sintered compact and method for producing rare earth aluminate sintered compact" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,383, issued on July 29, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Rare earth aluminate sintered compact and method for producing rare earth aluminate sintered compact" was invented by Shozo Taketomi (Tokushima, Japan), Ryo Yamamoto (Anan, Japan), Tomomi Fujii (Anan, Japan) and Toshiyuki Hirai (Komatsushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rare earth aluminate sintered compact including rare earth aluminate phosphor crystalline phases and voids, wherein an absolute maximum length of 90% or more by number of rare earth aluminate phosphor crystalline phases is in a range from 0.4 micro metre to 1.3 micro metre, and an absolute...