US Patent Issued to DIC on May 19 for "Degassing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,637, issued on May 19, was assigned to DIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Degassing apparatus" was invented by Takaaki Fuse (Ichihara, Japan), Kazumi Oi (Ichihara, Japan), Naoki Hada (Ichihara, Japan), Youhei Suganuma (Ichihara, Japan), Kazuyasu Kawashima (Ichihara, Japan) and Akira Sato (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A degassing apparatus capable of preventing cross-contamination is provided. A degassing apparatus includes degassing modules each having a tube unit that is a gas permeable membrane separating a fluid circulation space and a reduced-pressure space from each other, vacuum piping communicatively connected to the reduced...