US Patent Issued to UBE on Jan. 27 for "Graphite-copper composite material, heat sink member using the same, and method for producing graphite-copper composite material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,372, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UBE Corp. (Ube, Japan).

"Graphite-copper composite material, heat sink member using the same, and method for producing graphite-copper composite material" was invented by Masafumi Yoshimura (Ube, Japan), Dai Inamori (Ube, Japan) and Kenichi Sunamoto (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphite-copper composite material that includes a copper layer having an average thickness of 15 micro metre or less and scaly graphite particles laminated with the copper layer interposed therebetween. The graphite-copper composite material has a copper volume fraction of 3 to 20%. The graphite-co...