US Patent Issued to NISSHIN KASEI on Sept. 15 for "Hydrogen production apparatus, hydrogen production method, silicon fine particles for hydrogen production, and production method for silicon fine particles for hydrogen production" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,315, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NISSHIN KASEI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Hydrogen production apparatus, hydrogen production method, silicon fine particles for hydrogen production, and production method for silicon fine particles for hydrogen production" was invented by Hikaru Kobayashi (Kyoto, Japan), Toru Higo (Osaka, Japan) and Yayoi Kanatani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary hydrogen production apparatus 100 according to the present invention includes a grinding unit 10 configured to grind a silicon chip or a silicon grinding scrap 1 to form silicon fine particles 2, and a hydrogen generator 70 con...