ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,778, issued on May 5, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Gas chromatography combustion furnace/tube structure for a sulfur chemiluminescence detector" was invented by Takamasa Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a sulfur chemiluminescence detector (SCD) including a heating furnace 210 including a combustion tube 211 and a heating means 215 for heating the combustion tube 211, an inert-gas introduction tube 214 that has the front end inserted into an end portion on an inlet side of the combustion tube 211 and has the rear end into which an end portion on the outlet side of a column 140 of a gas chromatogr...