Patents by Inventor Hidehiko Okabe

Hidehiko Okabe 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).

  • Publication number: 20210047215
    Abstract: A process for treating wastewater including: feeding organic wastewater to a first aerobic tank and an anoxic tank; nitrifying and denitrifying the organic wastewater by bacteria supported on carriers in the first aerobic tank followed by discharging primary treated water; denitrifying the organic wastewater and the primary treated water by bacteria in an activated sludge in the anoxic tank followed by discharging secondary treated water; nitrifying the secondary treated water by bacteria in an activated sludge in the second aerobic tank followed by discharging tertiary treated water; and separating the sludge from the tertiary treated water in the solid-liquid separator followed by discharging final treated water while returning the sludge to the anoxic tank. According to this process, a load in a latter anoxic tank can be reduced, the anoxic tank can be downsized compared with the prior process and treated water with good water quality is stably provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mototsugu YOSHIHARA, Kensuke UCHINAGA, Yu UKAI, Hidehiko OKABE
  • Patent number: 7879239
    Abstract: To provide an inexpensive wastewater treatment method which facilitates downsizing of tanks and requires less withdrawal of an excessive sludge, the use is made of an aeration tank 1 in which wastewater is contacted with a particulate carrier under an aerobic condition, and a total oxidization tank 3 in which the volume of a sludge generated in the aeration tank 1 is reduced under an aerobic condition, a coefficient of self-oxidization of the sludge flowing into the total oxidization tank 3 is set to 0.05 (per day), and the method includes a step of adding a coagulant to the total oxidization tank 3 for the purpose of improving the solid-liquid separating characteristic of the sludge within the total oxidization tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Baba, Hiroaki Fujii, Hidehiko Okabe, Goro Kobayashi, Tsutomu Miura
  • Publication number: 20100219126
    Abstract: To provide an inexpensive wastewater treatment method which facilitates downsizing of tanks and requires less withdrawal of an excessive sludge, the use is made of an aeration tank 1 in which wastewater is contacted with a particulate carrier under an aerobic condition, and a total oxidization tank 3 in which the volume of a sludge generated in the aeration tank 1 is reduced under an aerobic condition, a coefficient of self-oxidization of the sludge flowing into the total oxidization tank 3 is set to 0.05 (per day), and the method includes a step of adding a coagulant to the total oxidization tank 3 for the purpose of improving the solid-liquid separating characteristic of the sludge within the total oxidization tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Baba, Hiroaki Fujii, Hidehiko Okabe, Goro Kobayashi, Tsutomu Miura
  • Patent number: 7754081
    Abstract: A method of wastewater treatment that reduced equipment cost and running cost and realizes high efficiency implementation and further tank miniaturization, and that reduces excess sludge withdrawal. There is provided a method of wastewater treatment with excess sludge withdrawal reduced, characterized in that there are installed an aeration tank wherein wastewater is brought into contact with carrier particles under aerobic conditions, a total oxidization tank and a sedimentation tank, and that operation is made while maintaining the BOD sludge load in the total oxidization tank at 0.08 kg-BOD/Kg-MLSS*day or smaller, and that a coagulant is charged in the complete oxidization tank in order to improve the setting in the sedimentation tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Kuraray Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Baba, Hiroaki Fujii, Hidehiko Okabe, Goro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20090039015
    Abstract: A method of wastewater treatment that reduced equipment cost and running cost and realizes high efficiency implementation and further tank miniaturization, and that reduces excess sludge withdrawal. There is provided a method of wastewater treatment with excess sludge withdrawal reduced, characterized in that there are installed an aeration tank wherein wastewater is brought into contact with carrier particles under aerobic conditions, a total oxidization tank and a sedimentation tank, and that operation is made while maintaining the BOD sludge load in the total oxidization tank at 0.08 kg-BOD/Kg-MLSS*day or smaller, and that a coagulant is charged in the complete oxidization tank in order to improve the setting in the sedimentation tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: KURARAY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Baba, Hiroaki Fujii, Hidehiko Okabe, Goro Kobayashi