Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Chifuku

Hiroyuki Chifuku 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: 20120205318
    Abstract: Provided is a wastewater treatment technology (in particular, pretreatment technology) that, in comparison to existing technologies, can reduce the quantity of sludge generated as a result of processing wastewater that contains fluorine and silicon. Before adding a calcium compound to wastewater that contains fluorine and silicon and performing coagulation-sedimentation treatment on said wastewater, as a pretreatment, sodium hydroxide is added to the wastewater (first reaction tank 1), sodium silicofluoride is precipitated, and the precipitate sodium silicofluoride is removed via solid-liquid separation (first sedimentation tank 2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: KOBELCO ECO-SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tanida, Hiroyuki Chifuku, Sousuke Onoda
  • Publication number: 20110293506
    Abstract: An object (first object) of the invention is to provide a waste water treatment technology (pretreatment technology in particular) which makes it possible to recover fluorine at a high recovery rate as highly pure calcium fluoride, without diluting waste water containing fluorine and silicon, i.e. to recover fluorine from high-concentration waste water containing fluorine and silicon. Waste water containing fluorine and silicon is supplied to a pH controlling tank 1 and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is added thereto, with the result that sodium silicate is precipitated. Thereafter, the waste water is supplied to a solid-liquid separator 2 so that solid-liquid separation of sodium silicate is conducted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Kobelco Eco-Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tanida, Tsutomu Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Chifuku, Sousuke Onoda
  • Patent number: 6858144
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treatment of wastewater containing organic sulfur compounds The method includes introducing the wastewater into an apparatus body equipped with a fixed bed in which fixed carriers for the attachment of microorganisms are filled and a fluidized bed in which flowing carriers for the attachment of microorganisms are flown, and enabling the wastewater to flow through the fluidized bed towards the fixed bed so that the wastewater is biologically treated by the fluidized bed and the fixed bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Shinko Pantec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki Narita, Masanori Sugisawa, Hiroyuki Chifuku, Takayoshi Doi, Hiroki Yamaji, Yoshikazu Takai
  • Publication number: 20020038784
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treatment of wastewater containing organic sulfur compounds The method includes introducing the wastewater into an apparatus body equipped with a fixed bed in which fixed carriers for the attachment of microorganisms are filled and a fluidized bed in which flowing carriers for the attachment of microorganisms are flown, and enabling the wastewater to flow through the fluidized bed towards the fixed bed so that the wastewater is biologically treated by the fluidized bed and the fixed bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koki Narita, Masanori Sugisawa, Hiroyuki Chifuku, Takayoshi Doi, Hiroki Yamaji, Yoshikazu Takai
  • Patent number: 6328899
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating water containing organic sulfur compounds. The method includes treating the water containing the organic sulfur compounds by adding wastewater containing a quaternary ammonium compound or wastewater containing an amine thereto. An apparatus for carrying out the above method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignees: Shinko Pantec Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Chifuku, Yoshio Takamura, Takahiro Yano, Toshiaki Muratani
  • Patent number: 5529693
    Abstract: A method for treating water containing organic sulfur compounds comprises adjusting the pH value of the water in a pH adjustment tank, biologically treating the water in a biological treatment tank, adjusting the pH value of the water to be alkaline at any places in the biological treatment tank, maintaining the dissolved oxygen concentration of the water to 2 mg/L or higher at any places in the biological treatment tank, and supplying a part of the water to the pH adjustment tank for a further treatment. An apparatus for carrying out the above method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushki Kaisha, Shinko Pantec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yano, Toshiaki Muratani, Hiroyuki Chifuku, Yoshio Takamura