US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus for producing glass base material, and method for producing glass base material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,343, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Apparatus for producing glass base material, and method for producing glass base material" was invented by Shinobu Hata (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Kubo (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for producing a glass preform is an apparatus by pulling up a starting rod while the starting rod is rotated around an axis and glass fine particles generated by a burner are deposited in an axial direction of the starting rod. The apparatus for producing a glass preform includes an imaging device that acquires a deposition surface ...