US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Oct. 20 for "Zeolite membrane complex and method of producing zeolite membrane complex" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,467, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya-City, Japan).

"Zeolite membrane complex and method of producing zeolite membrane complex" was invented by Makoto Miyahara (Tajimi City, Japan), Kenichi Noda (Nagoya-City, Japan) and Naoto Kinoshita (Nagoya-City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zeolite membrane complex includes a porous support and a zeolite membrane provided on the support and composed of RHO-type zeolite. In a case where a surface of the zeolite membrane is measured by an X-ray diffraction method, a peak intensity derived from a (310) plane of RHO-type zeolite is not higher than 0.4 times a p...