US Patent Issued to Taiheiyo Cement on April 15 for "Combustion gas bleeding probe and method for operating same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,675, issued on April 15, was assigned to Taiheiyo Cement Corp. (Tokyo).

"Combustion gas bleeding probe and method for operating same" was invented by Koki Hamada (Tokyo) and Kensuke Kitazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustion gas bleeding probe includes a gas pipe for bleeding a part of a combustion gas from a kiln, and a plurality of discharge ports each of which is provided penetrating through the gas pipe and each of which discharges a low-temperature gas in a direction that is perpendicular to a direction of flow of a bleed gas bled by the gas pipe and that is directed toward a center of the flow of the bleed gas. ...