Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Takahashi
Hirofumi Takahashi 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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Patent number: 7897805Abstract: A polyisocyanate production method that can allow effective use of hydrogen chloride produced secondarily in a polyisocyanate production process, while allowing reduction of environmental burdens, and a polyisocyanate production system for performing the polyisocyanate production method. After chlorine is allowed to react with carbon monoxide to produce carbonyl chloride in a carbonyl chloride producing reactor, the carbonyl chloride produced in the carbonyl chloride producing reactor is allowed to react with polyamine in an isocyanate producing reactor to produce polyisocyanate. Then, after hydrochloric gas produced secondarily in the isocyanate producing reactor is purified in a hydrogen chloride purifying column, the purified hydrochloric gas is oxidized in a hydrogen chloride oxidizing reactor to produce chlorine.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2006Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Takao Naito, Fumiaki Hirata, Masato Saruwatari, Hirofumi Takahashi, Kouji Maeba, Tsugio Imaizumi, Takuya Saeki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Kouichirou Terada
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Publication number: 20100261061Abstract: A positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery according to the invention includes a positive electrode active material containing lithium oxide and a carbon composite obtained by dispersing carbon fiber and a clamped shape carbon material, and the positive electrode active material is combined with the carbon composite. In the positive electrode material for a lithium secondary battery constructed as described above, a conductive network between primary particles is formed by the carbon composite while the positive electrode active material (primary particles) are condensed to form secondary particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2006Publication date: October 14, 2010Inventors: Toyotaka Yuasa, Sai Ogawa, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20100226833Abstract: A polyisocyanate production method that can allow effective use of hydrogen chloride produced secondarily in a polyisocyanate production process, while allowing reduction of environmental burdens, and a polyisocyanate production system for performing the polyisocyanate production method. After chlorine is allowed to react with carbon monoxide to produce carbonyl chloride in a carbonyl chloride producing reactor, the carbonyl chloride produced in the carbonyl chloride producing reactor is allowed to react with polyamine in an isocyanate producing reactor to produce polyisocyanate. Then, after hydrochloric gas produced secondarily in the isocyanate producing reactor is purified in a hydrogen chloride purifying column, the purified hydrochloric gas is oxidized in a hydrogen chloride oxidizing reactor to produce chlorine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals Polyurethanes, Inc.Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Takao Naito, Fumiaki Hirata, Masato Saruwatari, Hirofumi Takahashi, Kouji Maeba, Tsugio Imaizumi, Takuya Saeki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Kouichirou Terada
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Patent number: 7767160Abstract: An apparatus for continuously producing polyisocyanate is provided for quickly contacting polyamine and carbonyl chloride in order to suppress an undesirable reaction between polyamine and polyisocyanate so that a by-product can be reduced and the yield of polyisocyanate can be improved. In a circulatory line 7, a material-mixing portion 8, a high-shear pump 3, a reactor 4, a liquid-feeding pump 5 and a cooler 6 are interposed in series along the direction of the flow of a reaction solution, thereby forming a closed line. In this apparatus 1, after polyamine and carbonyl chloride are supplied in the material-mixing portion 8, the reaction solution is sheared by the high-shear pump 3 in a state where the contact of the polyamine with the reaction solution is minimized. Thus, the formation of a urea compound as a by-product can be suppressed and the yield of polyisocyanate can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Kouji Maeba, Mitsunaga Douzaki, Hirofumi Takahashi, Osamu Hososaka
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Publication number: 20100191568Abstract: An apparatus for managing task information of a plant, the plant being controlled by a control system and configured to be operated in shifts. The apparatus comprises a server for automatically obtaining and storing information from a current work shift of the plant from the control system; and at least one client connected to the server and comprising a logbook application module for manipulating the obtained information. Preferably, the server is configured to automatically transmit manipulated information to identified users of a subsequent work shift.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Naveen Kashyap, Hirofumi Takahashi, Priyalatha Hariharan, Althea Remos Umali
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Patent number: 7742279Abstract: A secondary battery comprises a single-plate lead acid battery (Va), a positive electrode capacitor layer and a negative electrode capacitor layer, which are formed on the respective surfaces of a positive electrode plate, and a negative electrode plate. Each of the positive electrode plate and negative electrode plate contains an active material, to have a configuration in which activated carbon has a concentration gradient. The electronic resistance between a collector terminal and the center of a portion where activated carbon is present at a high concentration is lower than the electronic resistance between the collector terminal and the center of a portion where activated carbon is present at a low concentration. In the single-plate lead acid battery, charges are accumulated in the positive electrode capacitor layer and in the negative electrode capacitor layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirofumi Takahashi, Kyoko Honbo, Masanori Sakai
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Patent number: 7718145Abstract: A polyisocyanate production system is provided that can stably produce chlorine from hydrogen chloride produced secondarily while reacting stably between carbonyl chloride and polyamine and can perform an effective treatment of the hydrochloric gas produced secondarily. A hydrochloric gas control unit 32 controls a flow-rate control valve 23 to keep constant an amount of hydrogen chloride supplied from a hydrogen chloride purifying tank 4 to a hydrogen chloride oxidation reactor 6 via a second hydrochloric-gas connection line 11 to be constant, and also controls a pressure control valve 22 based on an inner pressure of the hydrogen chloride purifying tank 4 input from a pressure sensor 25 to discharge the hydrochloric gas from the hydrogen chloride purifying tank 4 to the hydrogen chloride absorbing column 5 via a first hydrochloric-gas connection line 10, so as to keep an inner pressure of the hydrogen chloride purifying tank 4 to be constant.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2006Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Hirofumi Takahashi, Kouji Maeba, Takao Naito, Kouichirou Terada, Takashi Yamaguchi, Takuya Saeki
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Patent number: 7704307Abstract: An electroless palladium plating liquid, with excellent bath stability, that can provide a film with excellent corrosion resistance, solder bondability, and wire bondability is provided. The invention is an electroless palladium plating liquid, containing: a water soluble palladium compound; at least one of ammonia, an amine compound, an aminocarboxylic acid compound, and carboxylic acid as a complexing agent; and bismuth or a bismuth compound as a stabilizer. Preferably the electroless palladium plating liquid further contains at least one of hypophosphorous acid, phosphorous acid, formic acid, acetic acid, hydrazine, a boron hydride compound, an amine borane compound, and salts thereof as a reducing agent.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2006Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Aiba, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20100096271Abstract: Provided is a copper anode or a phosphorous-containing copper anode for use in performing electroplating copper on a semiconductor wafer, wherein purity of the copper anode or the phosphorous-containing copper anode excluding phosphorous is 99.99 wt % or higher, and silicon as an impurity is 10 wtppm or less. Additionally provided is an electroplating copper method capable of effectively preventing the adhesion of particles on a plating object, particularly onto a semiconductor wafer during electroplating copper, a phosphorous-containing copper anode for use in such electroplating copper, and a semiconductor wafer comprising a copper layer with low particle adhesion formed by the foregoing copper electroplating.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: NIPPON MINING & METALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Aiba, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20090293732Abstract: A gas treatment apparatus for treating a gas by bringing the gas into contact with a treatment liquid. The gas treatment apparatus includes a gas-liquid contact chamber for a gas-liquid contact of the gas with the treatment liquid, a storage chamber, located over the gas-liquid contact chamber, for storing the treatment liquid, and a treatment liquid supplying unit for supplying the treatment liquid stored in the storage chamber to an inside of the gas-liquid contact chamber with a gravity-drop.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS POLYURETHANES, INC.Inventors: Masaaki SASAKI, Hirofumi Takahashi, Kouji Maeba, Takao Naito, Kouichirou Terada, Takashi Yamaguchi, Takuya Saeki
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Publication number: 20090081086Abstract: An apparatus for continuously producing polyisocyanate is provided for quickly contacting polyamine and carbonyl chloride in order to suppress an undesirable reaction between polyamine and polyisocyanate so that a by-product can be reduced and the yield of polyisocyanate can be improved. In a circulatory line 7, a material-mixing portion 8, a high-shear pump 3, a reactor 4, a liquid-feeding pump 5 and a cooler 6 are interposed in series along the direction of the flow of a reaction solution, thereby forming a closed line. In this apparatus 1, after polyamine and carbonyl chloride are supplied in the material-mixing portion 8, the reaction solution is sheared by the high-shear pump 3 in a state where the contact of the polyamine with the reaction solution is minimized. Thus, the formation of a urea compound as a by-product can be suppressed and the yield of polyisocyanate can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals Polyurethanes, Inc.Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Kouji Maeba, Mitsunaga Douzaki, Hirofumi Takahashi, Osamu Hososaka
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Publication number: 20090081369Abstract: An electroless palladium plating liquid, with excellent bath stability, that can provide a film with excellent corrosion resistance, solder bondability, and wire bondability is provided. The invention is an electroless palladium plating liquid, comprising: a water soluble palladium compound; at least one of ammonia, an amine compound, an aminocarboxylic acid compound, and carboxylic acid as a complexing agent; and bismuth or a bismuth compound as a stabilizer. Preferably the electroless palladium plating liquid further comprises at least one of hypophosphorous acid, phosphorous acid, formic acid, acetic acid, hydrazine, a boron hydride compound, an amine borane compound, and salts thereof as a reducing agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2006Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventors: Akihiro Aiba, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20090040031Abstract: A signal relay device, a communication network system and an operation system include: a standardized logic interface conversion unit for judging a control system type or a device type and converting a signal to a signal appropriate for a communication network; or a device side logic interface conversion unit for converting a signal from the communication network to a signal appropriate for the control system type or the device type. An operation monitoring station includes a advanced control block for the control system or the device and transmits a control signal to the communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2005Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Uchida, Masanori Noguchi, Toshiro Tomita, Tetsuo Hoshi, Koji Demachi, Toshiki Ogawa, Yoji Saito, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20080281991Abstract: A field device is connected to a communication apparatus installed in a communication system. The communication apparatus performs radio communication with a control apparatus which controls a plant where the field device is installed, in accordance with a standardized communication protocol, and relays the communication between the field device and the control apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiki Ogawa, Toshiro Tomita, Tetsuo Hoshi, Koji Demachi, Hirofumi Takahashi, Yoji Saito, Masanori Noguchi
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Publication number: 20080206638Abstract: A secondary battery comprises a single-plate lead acid battery (Va), a positive electrode capacitor layer and a negative electrode capacitor layer, which are formed on the respective surfaces of a positive electrode plate, and a negative electrode plate. Each of the positive electrode plate and negative electrode plate contains an active material, to have a configuration in which activated carbon has a concentration gradient. The electronic resistance between a collector terminal and the center of a portion where activated carbon is present at a high concentration is lower than the electronic resistance between the collector terminal and the center of a portion where activated carbon is present at a low concentration. In the single-plate lead acid battery, charges are accumulated in the positive electrode capacitor layer and in the negative electrode capacitor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventors: Hirofumi Takahashi, Kyoko Honbo, Masanori Sakai
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Patent number: 7396394Abstract: The invention provides a displacement electroless gold plating solution that is low in toxicity, can be used at a pH near to neutrality, and affords good solder adhesion and film adhesion. The displacement electroless gold plating solution contains a non-cyanide water-soluble gold compound and a hydrogensulfite compound. Preferably, the plating solution further contains a thiosulfuric acid compound or an aminocarboxylic acid compound. Sodium hydrogensulfite, potassium hydrogensulfite, ammonium hydrogensulfite or the like can be used as the hydrogensulfite compound.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2005Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Aiba, Kazumi Kawamura, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20080154066Abstract: A polyisocyanate production method that can allow effective use of hydrogen chloride produced secondarily in a polyisocyanate production process, while allowing reduction of environmental burdens, and a polyisocyanate production system for performing the polyisocyanate production method. After chlorine is allowed to react with carbon monoxide to produce carbonyl chloride in a carbonyl chloride producing reactor, the carbonyl chloride produced in the carbonyl chloride producing reactor is allowed to react with polyamine in an isocyanate producing reactor to produce polyisocyanate. Then, after hydrochloric gas produced secondarily in the isocyanate producing reactor is purified in a hydrogen chloride purifying column, the purified hydrochloric gas is oxidized in a hydrogen chloride oxidizing reactor to produce chlorine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2006Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals Polyurethanes, IncInventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Takao Naito, Fumiaki Hirata, Masato Saruwatari, Hirofumi Takahashi, Kouji Maeba, Tsugio Imaizumi, Takuya Saeki, Takashi Yamaguchi, Kouichirou Terada
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Publication number: 20080138252Abstract: A polyisocyanate production system is provided that can stably produce chlorine from hydrogen chloride produced secondarily while reacting stably between carbonyl chloride and polyamine and can perform an effective treatment of the hydrochloric gas produced secondarily. A hydrochloric gas control unit 32 controls a flow-rate control valve 23 to keep constant an amount of hydrogen chloride supplied from a hydrogen chloride purifying tank 4 to a hydrogen chloride oxidation reactor 6 via a second hydrochloric-gas connection line 11 to be constant, and also controls a pressure control valve 22 based on an inner pressure of the hydrogen chloride purifying tank 4 input from a pressure sensor 25 to discharge the hydrochloric gas from the hydrogen chloride purifying tank 4 to the hydrogen chloride absorbing column 5 via a first hydrochloric-gas connection line 10, so as to keep an inner pressure of the hydrogen chloride purifying tank 4 to be constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS POLYURETHANES, INC.Inventors: Masaaki Sasaki, Hirofumi Takahashi, Kouji Maeba, Takao Naito, Kouichirou Terada, Takashi Yamaguchi, Takuya Saeki
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Publication number: 20070209548Abstract: The invention provides a displacement electroless gold plating solution that is low in toxicity, can be used at a pH near to neutrality, and affords good solder adhesion and film adhesion. The displacement electroless gold plating solution contains a non-cyanide water-soluble gold compound and a hydrogensulfite compound. Preferably, the plating solution further contains a thiosulfuric acid compound or an aminocarboxylic acid compound. Sodium hydrogensulfite, potassium hydrogensulfite, ammonium hydrogensulfite or the like can be used as the hydrogensulfite compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2005Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Akihiro Aiba, Kazumi Kawamura, Hirofumi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20070213996Abstract: A know-how service system capable of handling integrally a life cycle management extended from installment to operation, maintenance, and scrapping of various equipments in a facility such as a plant, a factory, a hospital, a school, a vessel, or the like by utilizing a know-how scattered and held individually via a network, includes a know-how service providing portion, a know-how service utilizing portion, a know-how service applying portion, and a network to which respective portions are connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: September 13, 2007Applicant: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiro Tomita, Tetsuo Hoshi, Koji Demachi, Toshiki Ogawa, Yoji Saito, Hirofumi Takahashi