US Patent Issued to RIKEN on May 14 for "Target structure and target device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- United States Patent no. 11,985,755, issued on May 14, was assigned to RIKEN (Wako, Japan).

"Target structure and target device" was invented by Tomohiro Kobayashi (Wako, Japan), Yoshie Otake (Wako, Japan), Hideyuki Sunaga (Wako, Japan) and Xiaobo Li (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target structure includes a target and a cooling portion. The target generates neutrons by being irradiated with a charged particle beam. The cooling portion includes a front surface and a back surface that face to sides opposite to each other. The target is joined directly or indirectly to the front surface. A flow path for flowing of cooling liquid including hydrogen eleme...