Patents by Inventor Etsuo Shito

Etsuo Shito 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: 8899968
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for processing a combustible gas, which comprises a catalytic combusting means for receiving an oxygen-containing combustible gas that contains oxygen in addition to the combustible gas as the principal component thereof, causing this oxygen-containing combustible gas to contact an oxidation catalyst for partial combustion thereof, to produce the resultant partially combusted gas as a compressible combustible gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Seki, Masataka Masuda, Hirofumi Ohtsuka, Etsuo Shito, Katsuhiko Hirao
  • Patent number: 8328913
    Abstract: A flammable gas concentration system is described, which includes a concentrating apparatus for acquiring at least a portion of the product gas, concentrating the flammable gas included in the acquired product gas, and generating a high-concentration gas; and a mixer for acquiring the raw gas and the high-concentration gas generated by the concentrating apparatus, mixing the acquired high-concentration gas and the raw gas, and generating the product gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Etsuo Shito, Katsuhiko Hirao, Kenji Seki
  • Patent number: 8262771
    Abstract: A flammable gas concentration device comprises an adsorption tower filled by an adsorbent for adsorbing a flammable gas. Raw gas containing air and a flammable gas is fed to the adsorption tower via a feeding path and an exhaust gas in the raw gas which has not been adsorbed to the adsorbent is discharged to an outside of the adsorption tower via a discharge path. Pressure in the adsorption tower is reduced lower than an atmospheric pressure, and the flammable gas adsorbed by the adsorbent is desorbed and collected through a collection path. A flammable gas adsorption step of feeding the raw gas to the adsorption tower and discharging the exhaust gas from the adsorption tower, and a flammable gas desorption step of collecting the desorbed flammable gas are sequentially executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Seki, Etsuo Shito, Katsuhiko Hirao
  • Publication number: 20100196833
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for processing a combustible gas, which comprises a catalytic combusting means for receiving an oxygen-containing combustible gas that contains oxygen in addition to the combustible gas as the principal component thereof, causing this oxygen-containing combustible gas to contact an oxidation catalyst for partial combustion thereof, to produce the resultant partially combusted gas as a compressible combustible gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: OSAKA GAS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Seki, Masataka Masuda, Hirofumi Ohtsuka, Etsuo Shito, Katsuhiko Hirao
  • Publication number: 20100115840
    Abstract: A flammable gas concentration system comprises concentrating means for acquiring at least a portion of the product gas, concentrating the flammable gas included in the acquired product gas, and generating a high-concentration gas; and mixing means for acquiring the raw gas and the high-concentration gas generated by the concentrating means, mixing the acquired high-concentration gas and the raw gas, and generating the product gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicants: GAS AND POWER INVESTMENT CO., LTD., OSAKA GAS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Etsuo Shito, Katsuhiko Hirao, Kenji Seki
  • Publication number: 20100005958
    Abstract: A flammable gas concentration device comprises an adsorption tower filled by an adsorbent for adsorbing a flammable gas; feeding means for feeding a raw gas containing air and a flammable gas to the adsorption tower via a feeding path and discharging an exhaust gas in the raw gas which has not been adsorbed to the adsorbent to an outside of the adsorption tower via a discharge path; collection means for reducing a pressure in the adsorption tower lower than an atmospheric pressure, and desorbing the flammable gas adsorbed by the adsorbent and collecting the flammable gas through a collection path; and control means for sequentially executing a flammable gas adsorption step of feeding the raw gas to the adsorption tower and discharging the exhaust gas from the adsorption tower by the feeding mean, and a flammable gas desorption step of collecting the flammable gas desorbed by the collection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicants: OSAKA GAS CO., LTD., GAS AND POWER INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Seki, Etsuo Shito, Katsuhiko Hirao