US Patent Issued to ORC MANUFACTURING on Sept. 23 for "Excimer lamp and UV irradiation unit including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,431, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ORC MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Excimer lamp and UV irradiation unit including the same" was invented by Go Kobayashi (Nagano, Japan), Shigeru Kitazawa (Nagano, Japan) and Izumi Serizawa (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excimer lamp includes an exterior tube, an interior tube coaxially arranged in the exterior tube, and an inner electrode embedded between the exterior tube and a cladding tube configured to cover at least part of the exterior tube. An outer electrode is provided at the side of the outer surface of the exterior tube. The inner electrode is a foil electrode ...