US Patent Issued to NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT on Oct. 20 for "Ion source and operating method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,831, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Koka-city, Japan).

"Ion source and operating method thereof" was invented by Yuta Iwanami (Koka-city, Japan), Yuya Hirai (Koka-city, Japan), Suguru Itoi (Koka-city, Japan) and Weijiang Zhao (Koka-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion source includes a vaporizer, a plasma chamber, and a controller. The vaporizer produces a reaction product by supplying, through a first gas supply line to a crucible in which a solid material is installed, a reactive gas that reacts with the solid material, and vaporizes the reaction product by heating the crucible with a...