Patents by Inventor Fuminori Ando
Fuminori Ando 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).
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Publication number: 20220315437Abstract: A system for processing a waste lithium-ion battery includes: a first aqueous solution generator that includes a first elution tank storing water, and that immerses an active material taken out from the waste lithium-ion battery in the water in the first elution tank and subjects the active material to carbon dioxide bubbling in the first elution tank to generate an aqueous solution of pH 5.5 to 8.5, in which lithium contained in the active material is eluted; a first solid-liquid separator that removes a solid component from the aqueous solution generated by the first aqueous solution generator; a first crystallizer that causes lithium carbonate to be deposited from the aqueous solution, from which the solid component has been removed by the first solid-liquid separator; and a second solid-liquid separator that performs solid-liquid separation on slurry containing the lithium carbonate deposited in the first crystallizer to take out the lithium carbonate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fuminori ANDO, Hiroaki OSAWA, Shoji TAKADA, Chie NAKAJIMA, Mariko YAMASHITA, Masahiro SUGATA, Koji FUKUMOTO, Masaki TSUZAWA, Ryosuke NAGAI
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Publication number: 20220173447Abstract: A waste lithium-ion battery roasting apparatus includes: a transport mechanism including a cylindrical body, the cylindrical body containing an internal atmosphere that is a reducing atmosphere or a low-oxygen atmosphere; a heating mechanism that heats an outer wall of the cylindrical body to increase an internal temperature of the cylindrical body, and controls heating temperatures individually at which the heating mechanism heats the outer wall at different respective positions in a transporting direction in which the transport mechanism transports a waste lithium-ion battery; and a controller that controls the heating temperatures, at which the heating mechanism heats the outer wall, in accordance with a transporting speed at which the transport mechanism transports the waste lithium-ion battery, such that a temperature increase rate of the waste lithium-ion battery transported inside the cylindrical body is a predetermined temperature increase rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fuminori ANDO, Hiroaki OSAWA, Mariko YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20220140412Abstract: A system for and a method of processing a waste lithium-ion battery make it possible to improve heat treatment efficiency and to heat-treat a large-sized waste lithium-ion battery without disassembling the battery. One example of the system for processing a waste lithium-ion battery includes a heater that heat-treats a waste lithium-ion battery at a heating temperature of lower than 400° C. to decompose and remove an electrolyte solution from the waste lithium-ion battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fuminori ANDO, Hiroaki OSAWA, Chie NAKAJIMA, Mariko YAMASHITA, Masahiro SUGATA, Koji FUKUMOTO, Masaki TSUZAWA, Ryosuke NAGAI
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Patent number: 10846325Abstract: An information search system for searching detection algorithm information of spectral data necessary for determining a target event from a photographed subject includes a first relational database that stores a first relevance index having at least three levels between each target event of the subject and the detection algorithm information in advance, a target event input unit that receives information regarding a target event of the subject to be newly determined, a search unit that searches at least one piece of detection algorithm information on the basis of information regarding the target event received by the target event input unit by referencing the first relevance index, and a receive unit that receives information regarding the target event of the photographed subject from a photographing terminal that photographs the subject. The first relational database updates the first relevance index on the basis of the information received by the receive unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: EBA JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Noro, Yohei Takara, Fuminori Ando
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Patent number: 10832088Abstract: An information search system for searching detection algorithm information of spectral data necessary for determining a target event from a photographed subject includes a first relational database configured to store, in advance, a first relevance index having at least three levels between each target event of the subject and the detection algorithm information, a target event input unit configured to receive input information regarding a target event of the subject to be newly determined, and a search unit configured to search at least one piece of detection algorithm information on the basis of information regarding the target event received by the target event input unit by referencing the first relevance index stored in the first relational database.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: EBA JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki Noro, Yohei Takara, Fuminori Ando, Takahiro Fujimori
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Publication number: 20200065326Abstract: An information search system for searching detection algorithm information of spectral data necessary for determining a target event from a photographed subject includes a first relational database that stores a first relevance index having at least three levels between each target event of the subject and the detection algorithm information in advance, a target event input unit that receives information regarding a target event of the subject to be newly determined, a search unit that searches at least one piece of detection algorithm information on the basis of information regarding the target event received by the target event input unit by referencing the first relevance index, and a receive unit that receives information regarding the target event of the photographed subject from a photographing terminal that photographs the subject. The first relational database updates the first relevance index on the basis of the information received by the receive unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: EBA JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki NORO, Yohei TAKARA, Fuminori ANDO
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Publication number: 20190147294Abstract: An information search system for searching detection algorithm information of spectral data necessary for determining a target event from a photographed subject includes a first relational database configured to store, in advance, a first relevance index having at least three levels between each target event of the subject and the detection algorithm information, a target event input unit configured to receive input information regarding a target event of the subject to be newly determined, and a search unit configured to search at least one piece of detection algorithm information on the basis of information regarding the target event received by the target event input unit by referencing the first relevance index stored in the first relational database.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2018Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: EBA JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoki NORO, Yohei TAKARA, Fuminori ANDO, Takahiro Takahiro FUJIMORI
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Patent number: 6193176Abstract: A method of grinding cement clinkers and a cement clinker grinding apparatus having a vertical roller mill are provided. In the method, feed material is ground by a table and rollers. Next, substantially all the resultant ground material is taken out from an underside of the table and then converted to a separator for classifying the ground material by a bucket elevator. The resultant coarse powder provided by the separator is returned to a center of the table. In grinding, an pressing force of each of the rollers onto the table is selected so that a roller pressure per full sectional area of the roller ranges from 10 to 15 kg/cm2. Further, a circulation quantity of the coarse powder to be returned to the vertical roller mill is selected from 100 to 300% of the feed material charged into the center of the table. And the liquid of 0.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1998Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiheiyo Cement CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Mitsuda, Seisuke Sawamura, Hiroshi Ueda, Fuminori Ando, Kanzaburo Sutoh, Mitsuaki Murata, Akihiko Takayama
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Patent number: 6019299Abstract: The grinding efficiency can be improved by use of a vertical roller mill, while reducing the energy consumption and improving the product quality. The disclosed cement clinker grinding apparatus comprises a closed circuit for conveying the ground material from the vertical roller mill (21) to the external separator (28) by the bucket elevator (29), for classifying the conveyed material into coarse powder and fine powder, and further for returning the classified coarse powder into the vertical roller mill (21). That is, a part of the ground material conveyed by the bucket elevator (29) is divided by the distributing damper (32) and then directly returned to the vertical roller mill (21). Since the ground material are not conveyed by air flow conveyance (i.e., air sweep), it is possible to prevent an increase of power consumption of the suction fan (31).Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1997Date of Patent: February 1, 2000Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiheiyo Cement Corp.Inventors: Yoshihiro Mitsuda, Seisuke Sawamura, Hiroshi Ueda, Fuminori Ando, Kanzaburo Sutoh, Mitsuaki Murata, Akihiko Takayama
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Patent number: 5975309Abstract: A fluidized-bed classifier has a vessel defining a space divided into an upper fluidized-bed chamber and a lower gas chamber by a perforated dispersion plate having the shape of a funnel. Rising currents of a gas, such as air, are blown through the dispersion plate into the upper fluidized-bed chamber to produce a fluidized bed of a particulate material over the dispersion plate. The lower gas chamber is divided into a first gas chamber and a second gas chamber by a partition plate. The gas is supplied into the first air chamber so that rising gas currents of a velocity necessary for fluidizing coarse particles contained in the particulate material fed into the vessel are blown from the first air chamber through the dispersion plate into the fluidized-bed chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1997Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Taiheiyo Cement CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Mitsuda, Seisuke Sawamura, Ryuichi Okamura, Hiroshi Ueda, Fuminori Ando, Kanzaburo Sutoh, Mitsuaki Murata, Tsutomu Hirobe