US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, TOYODA GOSEI on Oct. 7 for "Hydrogen gas producing apparatus using a photocatalyst" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,963, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Kiyosu, Japan).

"Hydrogen gas producing apparatus using a photocatalyst" was invented by Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, Japan), Ryota Tomizawa (Mishima, Japan), Kenichi Okumura (Gotemba, Japan) and Tatsuya Hasegawa (Ama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an apparatus producing hydrogen gas by a decomposition reaction of water using a photocatalyst, the water is warmed with waste heat of a light source for improving the production efficiency of hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas producing apparatus 1 comprises a container portion receiving ...