US Patent Issued to NOK on July 21 for "Hollow fiber membrane module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,967, issued on July 21, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hollow fiber membrane module" was invented by Yosuke Ito (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a hollow fiber membrane module that allows reducing pressure loss of a dry gas and a moist gas. A hollow fiber membrane module has: a hollow fiber membrane bundle; a case in which the hollow fiber membrane bundle is accommodated; a pair of sealing and fixing parts that fixes the hollow fiber membrane bundle to the case; intra-membrane channels; and extra-membrane channels. Moisture in the moist gas is supplied into the dry gas by virtue of the membrane separat...