US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA on March 17 for "Lithium nitride manufacturing device and method of manufacturing lithium nitride" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,105, issued on March 17, was assigned to FURUKAWA Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Lithium nitride manufacturing device and method of manufacturing lithium nitride" was invented by Tetsuya Matsubara (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a lithium nitride manufacturing device (10) for heating a lithium member (9) in a nitrogen atmosphere to nitride the lithium member (9) such that lithium nitride is manufactured, the lithium nitride manufacturing device including: a reaction tank (1) where a nitriding reaction of the lithium member (9) is performed; a heating unit (2) that heats the lithium member (9); an atmosphere control un...