Patents by Inventor Kiyonobu Niwa

Kiyonobu Niwa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9181569
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing acrylamide comprising: supplying a raw material water to a reactor, supplying acrylonitrile to the reactor, and hydrating acrylonitrile using a biocatalyst, wherein a temperature of the raw material water in the supplying step of the raw material water to the reactor is equal to or more than freezing point of the raw material water and lower than the reaction temperature by 5° C. or more. The present invention can be provided to the method of producing acrylamide which can be removed the reaction heat produced at the hydration reaction of acrylonitrile effectively with a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kanou, Kiyonobu Niwa
  • Patent number: 8889907
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an amide compound from a nitrile compound using a biocatalyst that realizes low cost, energy saving and low environmental burdens. The production method of the amide compound of the present invention is a method for producing an amide compound from a nitrile compound using a biocatalyst in a reactor, wherein the nitrile compound is reacted with the biocatalyst to produce the amide compound under such stirring conditions that the stirring power requirement is in the range of 0.08 to 0.7 kW/m3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kanou, Kiyonobu Niwa, Masahito Oda
  • Publication number: 20140134683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing acrylamide comprising: supplying a raw material water to a reactor, supplying acrylonitrile to the reactor, and hydrating acrylonitrile using a biocatalyst, wherein a temperature of the raw material water in the supplying step of the raw material water to the reactor is equal to or more than freezing point of the raw material water and lower than the reaction temperature by 5° C. or more. The present invention can be provided to the method of producing acrylamide which can be removed the reaction heat produced at the hydration reaction of acrylonitrile effectively with a low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kanou, Kiyonobu Niwa
  • Publication number: 20110171701
    Abstract: [Problem] The present invention provides a method for producing acrylamide from acrylonitrile using a biocatalyst with high productivity at low cost, in which reaction heat can be efficiently removed even at an industrial reaction scale. [Means for Solving] The present invention relates to a method for producing acrylamide by reacting acrylonitrile in the presence of a biocatalyst, wherein the reaction is performed using a reactor having a reaction volume of 1 m3 or more equipped with a tubular heat exchanger, and wherein the difference between a temperature of a cooling water to be introduced into the heat exchanger and a reaction temperature is maintained from 5 to 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Makoto Kano, Kiyonobu Niwa, Kozo Murao
  • Publication number: 20110021819
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an amide compound from a nitrile compound using a biocatalyst that realizes low cost, energy saving and low environmental burdens. The production method of the amide compound of the present invention is a method for producing an amide compound from a nitrile compound using a biocatalyst in a reactor, wherein the nitrile compound is reacted with the biocatalyst to produce the amide compound under such stirring conditions that the stirring power requirement is in the range of 0.08 to 0.7 kW/m3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Dia-Nitrix Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kanou, Kiyonobu Niwa, Masahito Oda
  • Patent number: 6906215
    Abstract: There is provided a powdery S,S-EDDS iron complex improved in its caking property. An S,S-ethylenediamine-N,N?-disuccinic acid iron complex, which is crystalline and has an average particle diameter of from 10 to 1000 ?m and a water content of not more than 7% by weight, a powdery S,S-ethylene-N,N?-disuccinic acid (S,S-EDDS) iron complex having a compressive strength of not more than 1 kg/cm2, the compressive strength being measured according to JIS A 1108 after a lapse of 2 months under conditions of a temperature of 50° C. and a load of 300 g/cm2, and a process for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeho Tanaka, Hiroyasu Banba, Kiyonobu Niwa
  • Patent number: 6495716
    Abstract: Crystals of [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid which have a bulk density of 0.45 to 1.2 g/cm3, and a process for obtaining these crystals comprising the steps of adjusting an aqueous solution of an [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid metal salt to a temperature of 40 to 80° C. and a pH of 1.9 to 4.5, and cooling the solution to a temperature below 40° C. over a period of 0.2 to 10 hours while supplying a mineral acid so as to maintain the pH at 1.9 to 4.5 to precipitate [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid in a high yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Banba, Shigeho Tanaka, Kiyonobu Niwa, Takakazu Endo
  • Patent number: 6414189
    Abstract: Crystals of [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid which have a bulk density of 0.45 to 1.2 g/cm3, and a process for obtaining these crystals comprising the steps of adjusting an aqueous solution of an [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid metal salt to a temperature of 40 to 80° C. and a pH of 1.9 to 4.5, and cooling the solution to a temperature below 40° C. over a period of 0.2 to 10 hours while supplying a mineral acid so as to maintain the pH at 1.9 to 4.5 to precipitate [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid in a high yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Banba, Shigeho Tanaka, Kiyonobu Niwa, Takakazu Endo
  • Publication number: 20020082449
    Abstract: Crystals of [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid which have a bulk density of 0.45 to 1.2 g/cm3, and a process for obtaining these crystals comprising the steps of adjusting an aqueous solution of an [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid metal salt to a temperature of 40 to 80° C. and a pH of 1.9 to 4.5, and cooling the solution to a temperature below 40° C. over a period of 0.2 to 10 hours while supplying a mineral acid so as to maintain the pH at 1.9 to 4.5 to precipitate [S,S]-ethylenediamine-N,N′-disuccinic acid in a high yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Rayon co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Banba, Shigeho Tanaka, Kiyonobu Niwa, Takakazu Endo
  • Patent number: 5773659
    Abstract: To develop a zeolite catalyst which can prevent the drastic lowering of dimethylamine selectivity to be caused in the production of dimethylamine using a zeolite catalyst when the conversion of methanol is high, and which can give higher dimethylamine selectivity and lower trimethylamine selectivity as well as higher methanol-consuming reaction activity; and to provide a process for producing dimethylamine with high selectivity, using the catalyst.A process for producing dimethylamine by allowing methanol, or methanol and a methylamine mixture, or a methylamine mixture to react with ammonia in the gaseous phase in the presence of a catalyst, characterized in that a modified zeolite prepared by treating a zeolite with a solution containing a chelating agent is used as the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Nitto Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Michio Fukatsu, Katsumasa Nishijima, Takeshi Narita, Toshio Nakamura, Kiyonobu Niwa
  • Patent number: 5688854
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improvement in a process for catalytic production of methylamines from methanol and NH.sub.3, or methanol, a mixture of methylamines and NH.sub.3, or a mixture of methylamines and NH.sub.3, in a gaseous phase, over a bed of a zeolite catalyst, where the improvement is that the catalyst bed is divided into two or more sub-beds, and the difference between the inlet and outlet temperatures of each catalyst sub-bed is kept in the range of approximately 5.degree. C. to approximately 70.degree. C. while the reaction is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Nitto Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeyuki Fujita, Kiyonobu Niwa, Kazumoto Ogura, Michio Fukatsu
  • Patent number: 5068442
    Abstract: There is provided a method for maintaining the activity of a zeolite catalyst in the catalytic production of methylamines from methanol and ammonia using a zeolite catalyst as at least one of catalysts applied, which comprises controlling the amount of aldehyde compounds as impurities flowing into a zeolite catalyst layer to about 0.15 g/hr.kg-cat. or lower, as calculated in terms of formaldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Nitto Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiro Ashina, Takeyuki Fujita, Kiyonobu Niwa, Takeshi Inagaki, Yuko Nikaido