Patents by Inventor Norio Yoshitake

Norio Yoshitake 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).

  • Method for recovering and producing ethanol and oil
    Patent number: 8722372
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing an ethanol which facilitates the processing of a solid component as a residue generated upon processing, while improving the recovery rate of heat energy contained in leftover food. The method for recovering and producing ethanol and oil is a method for producing ethanol by saccharification, fermentation, and distillation of leftover food. In this method, a three-phase centrifuge for performing separation into three phases of an oil component, an aqueous solution component, and a solid component is used in a step of solid-liquid separation of any one of a saccharified liquid, a fermented liquid, and a distillation waste liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd., Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Kiuchi, Yasuhiko Kato, Yasufumi Hajima, Norio Yoshitake, Shigeru Mitarai
  • METHOD FOR RECOVERING AND PRODUCING ETHANOL AND OIL
    Publication number: 20120034667
    Abstract: To provide a method for producing an ethanol which facilitates the processing of a solid component as a residue generated upon processing, while improving the recovery rate of heat energy contained in leftover food. The method for recovering and producing ethanol and oil is a method for producing ethanol by saccharification, fermentation, and distillation of leftover food. In this method, a three-phase centrifuge for performing separation into three phases of an oil component, an aqueous solution component, and a solid component is used in a step of solid-liquid separation of any one of a saccharified liquid, a fermented liquid, and a distillation waste liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Takafumi Kiuchi, Yasuhiko Kato, Yasufumi Hajima, Norio Yoshitake, Shigeru Mitarai
  • Inflator processing apparatus and method of judging charge of inflator
    Patent number: 6878352
    Abstract: Recovery of air bag inflator metal cases. An inflator processing apparatus configured to process a gas-generating chemical-containing inflator for automobile air bags, by heating the inflator to a temperature not lower than an operating temperature of the chemical to facilitate recovery of the metal inflator case. In the apparatus, a protective metal partition wall is provided between an inner surface of a wall of an inflator-processing furnace and the chemical-containing inflator. This prevents damage to the refractory furnace wall, and also prevents melting of the metal inflator case, which could otherwise be occasioned by the chemical during thermal processing of the inflator containing the gas-generating chemical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiko Fukabori, Nobuo Nakabayashi, Kanshi Sakai, Yasumitsu Suzuki, Norio Yoshitake, Masato Fujioka