US Patent Issued to NEC on July 14 for "Ceramic film, method for manufacturing the same, emitter, and thermophotovoltaic power generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,536, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ceramic film, method for manufacturing the same, emitter, and thermophotovoltaic power generation device" was invented by Taizo Shibuya (Ibaraki, Japan), Akinobu Shibuya (Ibaraki, Japan), Takashi Miyazaki (Ibaraki, Japan), Kentaro Shinoda (Ibaraki, Japan), Jun Akedo (Ibaraki, Japan) and Mohammed Shahien Yamada (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic film for a TPV power generation device, the ceramic film having a sufficiently high strength thus making it possible to obtain a desirable radiation spectrum, is provided. A ceramic film (20) according to an exam...