US Patent Issued to KINBOSHI on Aug. 18 for "Plasma torch, plasma spraying device, and method for controlling plasma torch" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,512, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to KINBOSHI INC. (Tokyo).

"Plasma torch, plasma spraying device, and method for controlling plasma torch" was invented by Takehiro Kimura (Aichi, Japan), So Kimura (Aichi, Japan), Yuta Tanaka (Aichi, Japan) and Atsushi Nose (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The plasma torch according to the present invention rotates the generated plasma P along the central axis T and ejects it in the axial direction, and also causes the plasma P to melt the powder of the thermal spray material and discharge it to the outside from the front nozzle opening. The current vector and the magnetic flux vector ...