US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on April 21 for "Phosphor wheel comprising a heat dissipating member having a plurality of fins" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,341, issued on April 21, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Phosphor wheel comprising a heat dissipating member having a plurality of fins" was invented by Noboru Iizawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yosuke Honda (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phosphor wheel includes: a substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface; a phosphor layer; and a heat dissipating member. The heat dissipating member includes: a projecting portion projecting toward one of the principal surfaces and including a contact surface that contacts the one of the principal surfaces; ...