US Patent Issued to TAIYO NIPPON SANSO on June 23 for "Storage for powder material for metal 3D printer, and method for storing powder material for metal 3D printer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,714, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAIYO NIPPON SANSO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Storage for powder material for metal 3D printer, and method for storing powder material for metal 3D printer" was invented by Ryo Akamatsu (Tokyo), Tomohiro Oyama (Tokyo), Junichiro Asai (Tokyo) and Kan Murayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage for powder material for a metal 3D printer comprising a storage main body having a sealed space inside and capable of placing one or more storage containers for storing powder material for a metal 3D printer in the sealed space, a purge gas supply path for supplying a purge gas made from air to the seale...