ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,814, issued on March 3, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"Hollow-fiber membrane module unit" was invented by Naoki Nakashima (Shiga, Japan), Michitaka Higaki (Shiga, Japan), Ryo Ichimura (Shiga, Japan) and Kohei Fujii (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a hollow fiber membrane module unit including a plurality of hollow fiber membrane elements to which header pipe caps are attached at both end portions, the hollow fiber membrane elements being arranged in parallel to form a row, in which the adjacent header pipe caps attached to the hollow fiber membrane elements on a permeate s...