US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on Oct. 6 for "Hollow fiber microporous membrane, and gas separation membrane module with same built thereinto" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,243, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Hollow fiber microporous membrane, and gas separation membrane module with same built thereinto" was invented by Shingo Takechi (Otsu, Japan), Hiroo Katsuta (Otsu, Japan), Hidekazu Kano (Otsu, Japan) and Masaki Fujita (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-quality microporous hollow fiber membrane having high gas permeability, gas selectivity, and strength. A microporous hollow fiber membrane, having a carbon dioxide gas flux of 10x10-5 to 200x10-5 (cm3(STP)/cm2/sec/cmHg), a value (carbon dioxide gas flux/nitrogen gas flux) obtained by dividing a value ...