Patents by Inventor Eiichi Fukasawa

Eiichi Fukasawa 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: 9944536
    Abstract: A technique is provided in which valuable material is recovered from solid recovered material generated during chlorinating process of titanium-containing raw material, and in particular, in which chlorine gas and titanium-containing raw material can be efficiently separated and recovered from the solid recovered material. The method for production of titanium tetrachloride includes: a chlorinating process in which titanium-containing raw material, coke and chlorine are reacted, a recovering process in which chlorine gas, titanium oxide and coke are recovered by treating solid recovered material which is byproduced during the chlorinating process, and a reusing process in which these recovered material are reused as raw material for the chlorinating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TOHO TITANIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Matsuhide Horikawa, Seiichiro Tani, Ryota Horiguchi, Eiichi Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 9656879
    Abstract: A method for producing titanium tetrachloride is provided, in which valuable materials such as unreacted titanium-containing raw material, carbon raw material and chlorine can be recovered from solid recovered material generated in chlorinating process of titanium-containing raw material, and titanium-containing raw material can be efficiently used. The treatment method of titanium-containing raw material includes the steps: separating and removing impurities selectively from the titanium-containing raw material as chlorides so as to obtain high titanium-containing raw material, producing titanium tetrachloride using the high titanium-containing raw material, and performing separating process of impurities from solid recovered material byproduced in the production of titanium tetrachloride, together with selective chlorinating treatment of the titanium-containing raw material. Thus, the high titanium-containing raw material can be produced while recovering chlorine and impure oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TOHO TITANIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Matsuhide Horikawa, Eiichi Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20160016812
    Abstract: A method for producing titanium tetrachloride is provided, in which valuable materials such as unreacted titanium-containing raw material, carbon raw material and chlorine can be recovered from solid recovered material generated in chlorinating process of titanium-containing raw material, and titanium-containing raw material can be efficiently used. The treatment method of titanium-containing raw material includes the steps: separating and removing impurities selectively from the titanium-containing raw material as chlorides so as to obtain high titanium-containing raw material, producing titanium tetrachloride using the high titanium-containing raw material, and performing separating process of impurities from solid recovered material byproduced in the production of titanium tetrachloride, together with selective chlorinating treatment of the titanium-containing raw material. Thus, the high titanium-containing raw material can be produced while recovering chlorine and impure oxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Toho Titanium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Matsuhide HORIKAWA, Eiichi FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20150368119
    Abstract: A technique is provided in which valuable material is recovered from solid recovered material generated during chlorinating process of titanium-containing raw material, and in particular, in which chlorine gas and titanium-containing raw material can be efficiently separated and recovered from the solid recovered material. The method for production of titanium tetrachloride includes: a chlorinating process in which titanium-containing raw material, coke and chlorine are reacted, a recovering process in which chlorine gas, titanium oxide and coke are recovered by treating solid recovered material which is byproduced during the chlorinating process, and a reusing process in which these recovered material are reused as raw material for the chlorinating process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Matsuhide HORIKAWA, Seiichiro TANI, Ryota HORIGUCHI, Eiichi FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20070178028
    Abstract: Porous plate 13 is disposed between wind box 11 of dispersion board B and cylindrical vessel wall 12. Filling layer 14 of a structure packed with ceramic particles such as those of fused silica is disposed on the porous plate 13 so as to fill the inside of the cylindrical vessel wall. The filling layer 14 is composed of ceramic particles, so that the corrosion wear by chlorine gas can be inhibited and the durability thereof enhanced. Furthermore, a chlorine resistant member is disposed in a form so as to adhere to the internal surface of the cylindrical vessel wall 12, so that the corrosion wear by chlorine gas of the cylindrical vessel wall 12 can also be effectively inhibited. As a result, damage to the internal wall of the chlorination furnace can be minimized, and the state of allowing chlorine gas to be uniformly dispersed and supplied to fluidized bed 4 containing titanium ore and coke can be maintained for prolonged periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Eiichi Fukasawa, Fumito Arai, Masashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6168644
    Abstract: Titanium hydride powder with a maximum particle diameter of substantially 150 &mgr;m or less, the powder with particle diameters of 10 &mgr;m or less being 8% or less by weight, which is produced via step for embrittling a titanium and titanium alloy by hydrogenation, and titanium powder with a maximum particle diameter of which is 150 &mgr;m or less, the powder with particle diameters of 10 &mgr;m or less being 5% or less by weight. In the powder the oxygen content and the chlorine content are reduced, and the flowability and compactibility are excellent. This powder is particularly suitable for a raw material to produce a sintered titanium or titanium alloy product by the powder metallurgy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Toho Titanium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Fukasawa, Satoshi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 4902341
    Abstract: A method for producing titanium alloy by the reduction of titanium tetrachloride and alloy components with a reducing metal agent, capable of continuously producing titanium alloy on an industrial scale. The temperature and pressure of the reaction zone for the reduction are kept above a melting point of the titanium alloy and above the vapor pressure of the reducing metal agent at that temperature respectively, so that the reducing metal agent and its chloride may be kept in a molten state but without boiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Toho Titanium Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shigenori Okudaira, Takefumi Irie, Hiroshi Uchida, Eiichi Fukasawa, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masanori Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 4877445
    Abstract: A method for producing metal by the reduction of a metal halide by a reducing metal agent capable of continuously producing homogeneous metal of high purity. In the method, particles of the same metal as the metal to be produced are charged into a reaction vessel and the metal halide and the reducing metal agent both in vapor form, are ejected upwards into the reaction vessel from its lower portion to form a fluidized bed of the metal particles in the vessel. The reducing reaction between the two vapors takes place on the surface of the metal particles at a temperature below the melting point of the metal product and at a pressure below a vapor pressure of each of the reducing metal agent and the metal halide at that temperature, resulting in depositing and growing the metal product on the surface of the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Toho Titanium Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Okudaira, Takefumi Irie, Hiroshi Uchida, Eiichi Fukasawa, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Masanori Yamaguchi