Patents by Inventor Terufumi Kawasaki

Terufumi Kawasaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20090142244
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the decomposition at low temperatures of perfluorocompounds containing only fluorine as a halogen, such as CF4, C2F6 and the like. In the present invention, a perfluorocompound containing only fluorine as a halogen is brought into contact with a catalyst comprising Al, Ni and W as catalytically active ingredients and comprising a mixed oxide or complex oxide of Ni and Al and a mixed oxide or complex oxide of W and Ni, in the presence of steam or a combination of steam and air at a temperature of 500 to 800° C. to convert the fluorine in the perfluorocompound to hydrogen fluoride. Employment of the catalyst of the present invention improves the decomposition at low temperatures and hence makes it possible to decompose the perfluoro-compound at a high percentage of decomposition at a lower temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Shuichi Kanno, Shin Tamata, Shinichi Ichikawa, Terufumi Kawasaki, Hisao Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20090022642
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the decomposition at low temperatures of perfluorocompounds containing only fluorine as a halogen, such as CF4, C2F6 and the like. In the present invention, a perfluorocompound containing only fluorine as a halogen is brought into contact with a catalyst comprising Al, Ni and W as catalytically active ingredients and comprising a mixed oxide or complex oxide of Ni and Al and a mixed oxide or complex oxide of W and Ni, in the presence of steam or a combination of steam and air at a temperature of 500 to 800° C. to convert the fluorine in the perfluorocompound to hydrogen fluoride. Employment of the catalyst of the present invention improves the decomposition at low temperatures and hence makes it possible to decompose the perfluoro-compound at a high percentage of decomposition at a lower temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Shuichi Kanno, Shin Tamata, Shinichi Ichikawa, Terufumi Kawasaki, Hisao Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7435394
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the decomposition at low temperatures of perfluorocompounds containing only fluorine as a halogen, such as CF4, C2F6 and the like. In the present invention, a perfluorocompound containing only fluorine as a halogen is brought into contact with a catalyst comprising Al, Ni and W as catalytically active ingredients and comprising a mixed oxide or complex oxide of Ni and Al and a mixed oxide or complex oxide of W and Ni, in the presence of steam or a combination of steam and air at a temperature of 500 to 800° C. to convert the fluorine in the perfluorocompound to hydrogen fluoride. Employment of the catalyst of the present invention improves the decomposition at low temperatures and hence makes it possible to decompose the perfluoro-compound at a high percentage of decomposition at a lower temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kanno, Shin Tamata, Shinichi Ichikawa, Terufumi Kawasaki, Hisao Yamashita
  • Patent number: 7285250
    Abstract: In order to prevent exhaust pipe for exhausting perfluorocompound (PFC) decomposition gas after washing from corrosion, a mist separating apparatus is provided at a rear stage of the washing tower for washing the PFC decomposition gas. The corrosion of the exhaust pipe can be prevented by removing the mist from the washed gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kanno, Hisao Yamashita, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Shin Tamata, Yoshiki Shibano, Takeo Komuro, Tsugihiro Yukitake, Terufumi Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20040042948
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to improve the decomposition at low temperatures of perfluorocompounds containing only fluorine as a halogen, such as CF4, C2F6 and the like. In the present invention, a perfluorocompound containing only fluorine as a halogen is brought into contact with a catalyst comprising Al, Ni and W as catalytically active ingredients and comprising a mixed oxide or complex oxide of Ni and Al and a mixed oxide or complex oxide of W and Ni, in the presence of steam or a combination of steam and air at a temperature of 500 to 800° C. to convert the fluorine in the perfluorocompound to hydrogen fluoride. Employment of the catalyst of the present invention improves the decomposition at low temperatures and hence makes it possible to decompose the perfluoro-compound at a high percentage of decomposition at a lower temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Shuichi Kanno, Shin Tamata, Shinichi Ichikawa, Terufumi Kawasaki, Hisao Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20020122750
    Abstract: In order to prevent exhaust pipe for exhausting perfluorocompound (PFC) decomposition gas after washing from corrosion, a mist separating apparatus is provided at a rear stage of the washing tower for washing the PFC decomposition gas. The corrosion of the exhaust pipe can be prevented by removing the mist from the washed gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kanno, Hisao Yamashita, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Shin Tamata, Yoshiki Shibano, Takeo Komuro, Tsugihiro Yukitake, Terufumi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 5513233
    Abstract: Improved operability and economy of a nuclear reactor can be obtained by attaining a mixing of the flows of coolant in the lower plenum of the fuel assemblies of the nuclear reactor, a high flow stability of the two-phase flow in the fuel assemblies and a small pressure loss in the core. To achieve this, there is provided a coolant guide tube 60 that communicates with the inside of the fuel support piece 12 inserted in the control rod guide tube and the passage 16, wherein there is formed a coolant guide passage 61 along which coolant descends in the area outside of the coolant guide tube in the fuel assemblies from opening 79. The coolant guide passage along which the coolant descends from the opening is formed in an area outside of the coolant guide tube in the fuel support piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Hidaka, Shinichi Kashiwai, Yoshinori Saito, Terufumi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 5096659
    Abstract: A reactor containment vessel comprises typically a reactor pressure vessel housed in a dry well of the reactor containment vessel, a vent passage through which steam in the dry well is introduced into coolant accommodated in a pressure suppression chamber of the reactor containment vessel, a closed space formed at a position lower than the level of the normal liquid surface of the coolant, a first passage having an inlet opened into the pressure suppression chamber at a level higher than that of the normal liquid surface of the coolant and an outlet opened into the closed space, and a second passage communicating between the closed space and the dry well through a counter flow preventing arrangement for checking the flow directed toward the closed space, and therefore, noncondensable gas and liquid accumulated in the pressure suppression chamber are discharged into the dry well the pressure in which is higher than that in the pressure suppression chamber by making use of a difference in water head increased d
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Hidaka, Shigeo Hatamiya, Terufumi Kawasaki, Toru Fukui, Hiroaki Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Ryuhei Kawabe, Michio Murase, Masanori Naitoh