US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 7 for "Near-field thermal radiation power generation element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,571, issued on July 7, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Near-field thermal radiation power generation element" was invented by Shimpei Ogawa (Tokyo), Masaaki Shimatani (Tokyo), Shoichiro Fukushima (Tokyo) and Manabu Iwakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a near-field thermal radiation power generation element in which the efficiency of power generation by near-field thermal radiation is improved by reducing a distance between a heat source and a photoelectric conversion unit as compared with that in a conventional case. A near-field thermal radiation power generation element includes a heat source...