Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Iwama

Toshiyuki Iwama 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: 7879246
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an effective technique for achieving a higher level of water quality control in a water treatment apparatus. Representative water treatment apparatus according to the present invention may include a purifying section, a sterilizing section, a water storing section and a water quality detection sensor. The water quality detection sensor is immersed in the water storing section. The water quality detection sensor not only serves as a means for detecting the quality of water in the water storing section, but also as a means for detecting deposition of biomembrane on the detecting section of the water quality detection sensor due to deterioration of the sterilizing performance of the water storing section. As a result, an efficient water quality control system can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Clean Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yukio Doi, Koichi Matsuo, Yosuke Tabata, Toshiyuki Iwama, Yoichiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7622042
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for detecting the quality of water with high accuracy. A representative water treatment apparatus includes an aerobic treatment region that treats water aerobically, a downstream region in which the water aerobically treated in the aerobic treatment region flows, a water quality sensor that is submerged in the downstream region and detects the water quality and a sensor washing arrangement that washes the water quality sensor by supplying the water of the downstream region to the water quality sensor at a flow rate higher than water flowing around the water quality sensor. As a result, sludge generated due to aerobic treatment can be prevented from being deposited on the water quality sensor and/or deposited sludge can be removed, so that the accuracy of water quality detection of the water quality sensor can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Clean Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Suzuki, Yukio Doi, Hayato Kurokawa, Yosuke Tabata, Toshiyuki Iwama
  • Publication number: 20090057211
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for detecting the quality of water with high accuracy. A representative water treatment apparatus includes an aerobic treatment region that treats water aerobically, a downstream region in which the water aerobically treated in the aerobic treatment region flows, a water quality sensor that is submerged in the downstream region and detects the water quality and a sensor washing arrangement that washes the water quality sensor by supplying the water of the downstream region to the water quality sensor at a flow rate higher than water flowing around the water quality sensor. As a result, sludge generated due to aerobic treatment can be prevented from being deposited on the water quality sensor and/or deposited sludge can be removed, so that the accuracy of water quality detection of the water quality sensor can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Eiichi Suzuki, Yukio Doi, Hayato Kurokawa, Yosuke Tabata, Toshiyuki Iwama
  • Patent number: 7455775
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for detecting the quality of water with high accuracy. A representative water treatment apparatus includes an aerobic treatment region that treats water aerobically, a downstream region in which the water aerobically treated in the aerobic treatment region flows, a water quality sensor that is submerged in the downstream region and detects the water quality and a sensor washing arrangement that washes the water quality sensor by supplying the water of the downstream region to the water quality sensor at a flow rate higher than water flowing around the water quality sensor. As a result, sludge generated due to aerobic treatment can be prevented from being deposited on the water quality sensor and/or deposited sludge can be removed, so that the accuracy of water quality detection of the water quality sensor can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Clean Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Suzuki, Yukio Doi, Hayato Kurokawa, Yosuke Tabata, Toshiyuki Iwama
  • Publication number: 20070114175
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for detecting the quality of water with high accuracy. A representative water treatment apparatus includes an aerobic treatment region that treats water aerobically, a downstream region in which the water aerobically treated in the aerobic treatment region flows, a water quality sensor that is submerged in the downstream region and detects the water quality and a sensor washing arrangement that washes the water quality sensor by supplying the water of the downstream region to the water quality sensor at a flow rate higher than water flowing around the water quality sensor. As a result, sludge generated due to aerobic treatment can be prevented from being deposited on the water quality sensor and/or deposited sludge can be removed, so that the accuracy of water quality detection of the water quality sensor can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Eiichi Suzuki, Yukio Doi, Hayato Kurokawa, Yosuke Tabata, Toshiyuki Iwama
  • Publication number: 20060177555
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an effective technique for achieving a higher level of water quality control in a water treatment apparatus. Representative water treatment apparatus according to the present invention may include a purifying section, a sterilizing section, a water storing section and a water quality detection sensor. The water quality detection sensor is immersed in the water storing section. The water quality detection sensor not only serves as a means for detecting the quality of water in the water storing section, but also as a means for detecting deposition of biomembrane on the detecting section of the water quality detection sensor due to deterioration of the sterilizing performance of the water storing section. As a result, an efficient water quality control system can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Yukio Doi, Koichi Matsuo, Yosuke Tabata, Toshiyuki Iwama, Yoichiro Shimizu