US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER on July 21 for "Aeration module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,971, issued on July 21, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"Aeration module" was invented by Fumihiro Hayashi (Osaka, Japan), Takamasa Hashimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshimasa Suzuki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aeration module capable of aerating a liquid supplied to inner portions of hollow-fiber membranes includes a housing containing a fluororesin as a main component, and a plurality of the hollow-fiber membranes containing polytetrafluoroethylene or a modified polytetrafluoroethylene as a main component. A porosity K [%], an average thickness T1 [mm], and an average outer diamete...