US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on Nov. 3 for "Method and apparatus for manufacturing carbon nanotube assembled wire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,663, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for manufacturing carbon nanotube assembled wire" was invented by Toshihiko Fujimori (Osaka, Japan), Daiji Yamashita (Osaka, Japan), Takamasa Onoki (Osaka, Japan), Soichiro Okubo (Osaka, Japan), Takeshi Hikata (Osaka, Japan) and Junichi Fujita (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a carbon nanotube assembled wire includes: a first step of supplying a carbon-containing gas at one, first end of a tubular carbon nanotube synthesis furnace to grow a ca...