Patents by Inventor Masaharu Watabe

Masaharu Watabe 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: 8675807
    Abstract: Disclosed is a basket 50 that is located within a basket containment vessel, into which a boric acid solution capable of dissolving a pH adjuster flows, and can allow a pH adjuster solution to flow out by the inflowing boric acid solution. The basket 50 includes a plurality of containment units 71 stacked in a vertical direction with a predetermined first space L1 therebetween. The pH adjuster can be stored in each of the containment units 71. Also disclosed is a pH adjusting device including the basket 50, the basket containment vessel in which the basket 50 can be contained and in which cooling water can be stored, and an overflow pipe that, within the basket containment vessel, allows the pH adjuster solution that is obtained from the pH adjuster dissolved in the cooling water to flow out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Tanimoto, Masaharu Watabe, Jiro Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20100329410
    Abstract: Disclosed is a basket 50 that is located within a basket containment vessel, into which a boric acid solution capable of dissolving a pH adjuster flows, and can allow a pH adjuster solution to flow out by the inflowing boric acid solution. The basket 50 includes a plurality of containment units 71 stacked in a vertical direction with a predetermined first space L1 therebetween. The pH adjuster can be stored in each of the containment units 71. Also disclosed is a pH adjusting device including the basket 50, the basket containment vessel in which the basket 50 can be contained and in which cooling water can be stored, and an overflow pipe that, within the basket containment vessel, allows the pH adjuster solution that is obtained from the pH adjuster dissolved in the cooling water to flow out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Tanimoto, Masaharu Watabe, Jiro Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20050107648
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas hydrate dewatering cooling and outputting apparatus which dewaters and solidifies gas hydrate slurry and takes out the solidified gas hydrate under ambient pressure. The apparatus comprises an output apparatus body 31 having a supply port 32 for the gas hydrate slurry on an upper part of a pressure vessel, a screw extruder 33 provided at a lower part inside the output apparatus body 31 and having a drain 37 and an outlet sealing device, and a cooling device 41 which cools the vicinity of the outlet 39 of the screw extruder 33. According to such a construction, slurry gas hydrate can be efficiently and continuously dewatered, cooled and solidified, and gas hydrate powder can be consolidated into blocks and taken out to the atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Takahiro Kimura, Shojiro Iwasaki, Katsuo Itoh, Satoru Uehara, Kozo Yoshikawa, Hiromitsu Nagayasu, Haruhiko Ema, Masaharu Watabe, Yuichi Kondo, Hisayoshi Fujita, Hitoshi Endo, Yoshihiro Kita