ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,378, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Shangrao, China) and SICHUAN JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Leshan, China).
"Manufacturing method for single-crystal silicon rod and single-crystal furnace" was invented by Peng Xiang (Shangrao, China), Ziyang Ou (Shangrao, China), Xufan Li (Shangrao, China), Yonghui Li (Shangrao, China) and Yuang Yang (Shangrao, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method for a single-crystal silicon rod and a single-crystal furnace. The single-crystal silicon rod is pulled through a single-crystal furnace, and a crucible of the single-crystal furnace has a depth ranging from 680 mm ...