Patents Assigned to Organo Corporation
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Publication number: 20240101448Abstract: An ion exchanger unit that adsorbs impurities in a liquid to be tested, and a controller that switches between causing the flow of the liquid to be tested into the ion exchanger unit and the flow of eluent to elute the impurities adsorbed in the ion exchanger unit into the ion exchanger unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei TSUTANO, Akihiko TSUDA, Hiroshi SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20240091707Abstract: A cartridge attachment structure includes: a cover whose one end is attached to a pivot shaft for opening and closing a storage space; a support member attached to the pivot shaft and supporting a cartridge; and a pair of lifting-up members attached to the cover such that the cartridge can be sandwiched along the side surface of the cartridge. A groove is formed on each of the opposing inner surfaces of the lifting-up members to receive a projection 16 formed on the side surface of the cartridge. The groove is curved such that the bottom surface of the cartridge moves away from the support member when the protrusion slides along the groove as the cover rotates about the pivot shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Kaoru HONDA, Tadashi SATO, Akihiro SUZAWA
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Patent number: 11932555Abstract: A water treatment management apparatus used for monitoring and evaluating water supplied to a water treatment system such as an ultrapure water production system and performing appropriate management of operation of the water treatment system includes: a pure water production unit for evaluation to which water to be supplied to the water treatment system is supplied as target water, the pure water production unit for evaluation including a TOC removal apparatus for performing a unit operation of removing total organic carbon (TOC) components; and measuring means for measuring TOC concentration at a plurality of measurement points in the pure water production unit for evaluation, the plurality of the measurement points including an inlet and an outlet of the pure water production unit for evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Nozomi Takatori, Hiroshi Sugawara, Kazushige Takahashi, Fumio Sudo
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Publication number: 20240076260Abstract: A platinum group metal ion-supported catalyst in which platinum group metal ions or platinum group metal complex ions are supported on a non-particulate organic porous ion exchanger, wherein the non-particulate organic porous ion exchanger is formed of a continuous framework phase and a continuous pore phase; has a thickness of a continuous framework of 1 to 100 ?m, an average diameter of continuous pores of 1 to 1000 ?m, and a total pore volume of 0.5 to 50 ml/g; has an ion exchange capacity per weight in a dry state of 1 to 9 mg equivalent/g; and has ion exchange groups wherein the ion exchange groups are uniformly distributed in the organic porous ion exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji NAKAMURA, Hitoshi TAKADA, Hironao SAJIKI, Tsuyoshi YAMADA, Kwihwan PARK
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Patent number: 11901174Abstract: Provided are a substrate treatment method and a substrate treatment equipment enabling greater suppression of corrosion or oxidation of metal wiring exposed on a substrate surface. The present invention relates to a substrate treatment equipment having a treatment chamber wherein a substrate is disposed, and whereto a substrate treatment solution for treating the substrate is supplied. This equipment is provided with an inert gas filling mechanism for filling with an inert gas the interior of the treatment chamber wherein the substrate is disposed, and, near or inside the treatment chamber, a catalytic unit filled with a platinum-group metal catalyst wherethrough a hydrogen-dissolved water including hydrogen added to ultra-pure water is passed. Obtained by passing the hydrogen-dissolved water through the platinum-group metal catalyst, a hydrogen-dissolved treatment solution is supplied as the substrate treatment solution into the treatment chamber by the equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Daisaku Yano, Yukinari Yamashita, Masami Murayama, Koji Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11897790Abstract: Provided is a method for producing ultrapure water to supply, to a use point, ultrapure water obtained by treating raw material water for ultrapure water production in an ultrapure water production apparatus, wherein the raw material water for ultrapure water production contains at least one or more elements selected from B, As, Al, Ti, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, Sn, V, Ga, and Pb, and wherein an ion exchanger-filled module filled with at least a monolithic organic porous anion exchanger is installed in a treatment path of the ultrapure water production apparatus or in a transfer path from the ultrapure water production apparatus to the use point, and water to be treated is passed through the ion exchanger-filled module for treatment.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei Tsutano, Hitoshi Takada
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Publication number: 20240018020Abstract: The present invention provides a method for purifying a liquid to be treated, the method being capable of reducing the content of metal impurities in the liquid to be treated containing tetraalkylammonium ions, and further, being capable of suppressing cracking of the resin even when a strongly acidic cation exchange resin is used. The method includes: an impurity removal step of passing a liquid to be treated that contains tetraalkylammonium ions and metal impurities through a container filled with a cation exchange resin of a hydrogen ion form or a tetraalkylammonium ion form to reduce the content of the metal impurities in the liquid to be treated, wherein the degree of cross-linking of the cation exchange resin is from 16% to 24%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Noriko TAKADA, Kaoru NUKUI, Haruo YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20240010531Abstract: A urea treatment method in which hypobromite ions are generated by adding a chlorine-based oxidizer and a bromide salt to to-be-treated water containing urea so as to break down the urea in the to-be-treated water and obtain treated water, the method including: a) determining the free residual bromine concentration and the free residual chlorine concentration in the treated water; and b) controlling the added amount of the chlorine-based oxidizer and the bromide salt on the basis of the free residual bromine concentration and the free residual chlorine concentration. The device includes a bromide salt adding means, a chlorine-based oxidizer adding means, a urea decomposition tank, a residual chlorine meter, and a control device for controlling the added amount of the chlorine-based oxidizer by the chlorine-based oxidizer adding means on the basis of the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Naonori MOMOTANI, Kazushige TAKAHASHI, Yoshiaki HASEBE
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Publication number: 20240005274Abstract: A database stores inventory status information indicating the inventory status of parts and delivery status information indicating the delivery status of the parts, and a part preparation device acquires part identification information indicating a part that is needed, required quantity information indicating the quantity of parts needed, and required timing information indicating when the part is needed, and selects a securement site for securing the required part based on the part identification information, required quantity information, required timing information that were acquired, as well as on inventory status information and delivery status information that are stored in the database.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Fumio SUDO, Toyokazu KOBAYASHI, Masashi FUJITA, Kazume HIRAO
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Publication number: 20240002265Abstract: An electrodeionization device (EDI device) with improved performance for removing weak acid components such as boron includes a deionization chamber partitioned by a pair of ion exchange membranes between an anode and a cathode. A grain size of 0.1 mm or more and 0.4 mm or less is defined as small grain size, and a grain size of more than 0.4 mm is defined as large grain size. In the deionization chamber, a large grain size layer made of an ion exchange resin of large grain size and a mixed grain size layer in which an ion exchange resin of large grain size and an ion exchange resin of small grain size are mixed are arranged along a flow of water to be treated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki NAKAMURA, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Keisuke SASAKI
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Patent number: 11860075Abstract: The analyzing method for quantifying urea in a sample solution includes: a pretreatment step of pretreating the sample solution with at least one of a membrane device including a reverse osmosis membrane and an ion exchange device including an ion exchanger; and an analyzing step of analyzing a target substance in the pretreated sample solution. The analyzing step is based on, for example, flow injection analysis (FIA), and includes a step of quantifying the target substance by measuring the absorbance of a liquid containing a substance generated by reacting the target substance with a reagent.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushige Takahashi, Hiroshi Sugawara, Fumio Sudo, Katsuhisa Shimada
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Publication number: 20230416120Abstract: An ultrapure water production system that has a simplified configuration and that can efficiently remove fine particles that are contained in ultrapure water is provided. Ultrapure water production system has ultrapure water supply line that is connected to point of use and that supplies ultrapure water to point of use; return line that returns the ultrapure water that has not been used at point of use to ultrapure water supply line; and at least one ion exchange apparatus that is provided on ultrapure water supply line. Space velocity of water to be treated that flows in final-stage ion exchange apparatus is 170 (1/hr) or more, and wherein final-stage ion exchange apparatus is an ion exchange apparatus that is closest to point of use from among at least one ion exchange apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Fumitaka ICHIHARA, Fumio SUDO, Tsukasa KONDO, Hiroshi SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20230406729Abstract: A method for more accurately analyzing the content of a metal impurity in a liquid (ultrapure water) containing a low concentration of the metal impurity includes: passing the liquid through an ion exchanger; eluting and recovering the metal impurity captured in the ion exchanger with an eluent; and analyzing the eluent containing the eluted metal impurity and measuring the content of the metal impurity in the eluent, wherein the ion exchanger is used by connecting multiple ion exchangers of the same ion type in series, the volume of the porous ion exchangers per unit is 0.5 to 5.0 ml, and the differential pressure coefficient is 0.01 MPa/LV/m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventor: Kyohei TSUTANO
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Patent number: 11839835Abstract: A simulated moving-bed type chromatographic separation method separating a weakly adsorptive component, a strongly adsorptive component, and an intermediately adsorptive component, with eluents by using a circulation system in which a plurality of unit packed columns packed with an adsorbent are connected in series and in an endless form via pipes in which a feed solution supply port F, two or more eluent supply ports D corresponding to the eluents, an extraction port A of a fraction containing the weakly adsorptive component, an extraction port B of a fraction containing the intermediately adsorptive component, and an extraction port C of a fraction containing the strongly adsorptive component are provided in the pipes of the circulation system, and positions of the ports F, A, B, and C are set to have a specified relationship.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuo Okada, Masahiro Ogino, Kohei Sato, Masaki Tsuruta, Toshiki Miyajima
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Publication number: 20230373826Abstract: An apparatus for producing pure water has: biological treatment means for biological treatment of water to be treated that contains an organic material; means for adding hypohalogous acid that is positioned downstream of biological treatment means and that adds hypohalogous acid to the water to be treated after the biological treatment is carried out; and ultraviolet ray radiating apparatus that is positioned downstream of means for adding hypohalogous acid and that radiates ultraviolet rays to the water to be treated to which the hypohalogous acid has been added.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori YUI, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Kazushige TAKAHASHI, Naonori MOMOTANI
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Publication number: 20230365436Abstract: Distribution pipe for conducting ultrapure water from ultrapure water production facility to cleaning apparatus treatment unit provided on distribution pipe, distribution pipe for conducting ultrapure water to cleaning apparatus branches from distribution pipe between ultrapure water production facility and treatment unit, water amount controller provided in a first branch portion where distribution pipe branches from distribution pipe, water amount controller for controlling the ultrapure water supplied from distribution pipe to cleaning apparatus comparator for comparing a first amount of impurities contained in the ultrapure water treated by treatment unit with a second amount of impurities contained in the non-treated ultrapure water by treatment unit and flow path controller for controlling water amount controllers based on the results of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Kyohei TSUTANO, Satoshi NAKAI, Hiroshi SUGAWARA
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Publication number: 20230338871Abstract: A simulated moving-bed type chromatographic separation method including separating a weakly adsorptive component, a strongly adsorptive component, and an intermediately adsorptive component that has adsorptive property intermediate between the two components, with respect to an adsorbent, with two or more kinds of eluents by using a circulation system in which a plurality of unit packed columns each packed with an adsorbent are connected in series and in an endless form via pipes, the weakly adsorptive component, the strongly adsorptive component, and the intermediately adsorptive component being contained in a feed solution, wherein a feed solution supply port, eluent suply ports and a plurality of extraction ports are provided on the pipes of the circulation system, and positions of the feed solution supply port and the plurality of extraction ports are set to have a specified relationship; and a chromatographic separation system suitable for implementing the chromatographic separation method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro OGINO, Kazuo OKADA, Masaki TSURUTA, Kohei SATO, Toshiki MIYAJIMA
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Publication number: 20230331593Abstract: A pure water production system includes a reverse osmosis membrane device; an electric deionized water production device that is disposed downstream of the reverse osmosis membrane device; and a control device that controls a processing condition of the reverse osmosis membrane device. The control device controls a processing condition of the reverse osmosis membrane device such that a removal rate of a specific substance of the electric deionized water production device is equal to or lower than a threshold value, and concentration of the specific substance in the treated water of the electric deionized water production device is equal to or lower than a prescribed value and specific resistance of the treated water of the electric deionized water production device is equal to or higher than a prescribed value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki NAKAMURA, Keisuke SASAKI, Fumio SUDO
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Publication number: 20230322594Abstract: A water treatment system that can effectively remove persistent organic materials is provided. Water treatment system has: means for adding halogen oxoacid that adds halogen oxoacid to water to be treated that contains organic materials; and ion exchanger loaded apparatus that is positioned downstream of means for adding halogen oxoacid, wherein at least anion exchangers are loaded in ion exchanger loaded apparatus. The water to be treated to which the halogen oxoacid has been added is supplied to ion exchanger loaded apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Keisuke SASAKI, Kazushige TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20230312372Abstract: Water treatment apparatuses for removing impurities from supplied water and an information processing device are provided. The information processing device, based on the removal rates for removing impurities in the water treatment apparatuses, calculates a predicted value of the concentration of impurities contained in the water supplied from the water to be treatment apparatuses when water currently being supplied is treated by the water treatment apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Masaharu KAMATA, Daisaku YANO, Akihiro MOTOMIYA, Fumio SUDO