US Patent Issued to DENSO on Jan. 20 for "Carbon dioxide recovery system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,047, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Carbon dioxide recovery system" was invented by Hiroki Aoshima (Kariya, Japan), Yousuke Nakamura (Kariya, Japan) and Hiroyuki Takikawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a carbon dioxide recovery system. an electrochemical cell of a recovery device includes a working electrode having an adsorbent capable of adsorbing carbon dioxide, and a counter electrode. A sensor detects a recovery amount of carbon dioxide recovered and sent to a carbon dioxide recovery tank. A controller applies a first potential between the electrodes only for a time period in an...