US Patent Issued to Tokuyama on Aug. 12 for "Aluminum nitride powder and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,678, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tokuyama Corp. (Shunan, Japan).

"Aluminum nitride powder and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Yoshinori Tagashira (Shunan, Japan), Yoshiaki Yamashita (Shunan, Japan) and Masato Hamamoto (Shunan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an aluminum nitride powder useful as a raw material when an aluminum nitride sintered body excellent as an insulating high thermal conductive member is manufactured, particularly, by press molding. An aluminum nitride powder includes particles having a sphericity of 0.8 or more, in which a median size D50 obtained by a laser diffraction ...