ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,457, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CHANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Changzhou, China).
"Cleaning device for crystalline silicon recycled from photovoltaic cells by wet purification" was invented by Pin Zhou (Changzhou, China), Jingbo Zhao (Changzhou, China), Xiaohui Chen (Changzhou, China), Quanfa Zhou (Changzhou, China), Shubo Wang (Changzhou, China) and Yu Zhao (Changzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning device for crystalline silicon recycled from photovoltaic cells by wet purification includes at least two tanks, a vacuum pump and first cleaning mechanisms arranged between the tanks. The number of the first c...