ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,043, issued on June 10, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasonic atomization apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Orita (Tokyo) and Takahiro Hiramatsu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an ultrasonic atomization apparatus of the present invention, a separator cup and four ultrasonic vibrators are provided to satisfy a reflected wave avoidance condition that "four reflected waves are not received by any of the four ultrasonic vibrators". Specifically, a set curvature of a bottom surface of the separator cup is set to be larger than a conventional set curvature. In addition, a distance from a center point of a bottom surfa...