Patents by Inventor Ikuhisa Hamada

Ikuhisa Hamada 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: 8033714
    Abstract: A cylinder-shaped flow passage in which a first fluid flows includes an internal cylinder which is smaller in diameter than the flow passage. A swirl-generating stator having four vanes is radially fixed in the internal cylinder. A header space for supplying a second fluid is provided to the outer circumference of a wall surface of the internal cylinder in contact with flow separation areas which are formed along downstream surfaces of the swirl-generating stator as the first fluid runs into the swirl-generating stator. The wall surface of the internal cylinder is formed with openings through which the flow separation areas communicate with the header space. The second fluid supplied into the header space flows through the openings into the flow separation areas, and is diffused along the vanes of the swirl-generating stator to be swirled and mixed into the first fluid applied with swirling force by the swirl-generating stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignees: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Babcock-Hitachi K.K.
    Inventors: Akira Nishioka, Kiyoshi Amou, Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Takehiko Kowatari, Yasunaga Hamada, Ikuhisa Hamada, Toshifumi Mukai, Yoshinori Taguchi, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 7509799
    Abstract: To provide an engine exhaust gas treatment system that can efficiently reduce and remove NOx using easy-to-handle urea as the reducing agent, regardless of the engine operating conditions. An exhaust gas denitration system in which an exhaust gas is introduced into the denitration catalyst reactor 5 provided in the exhaust gas flue 3, where NOx is reduced and removed in the presence of the denitrati on catalyst, wherein a diversion means provided in the exhaust gas flue 3 introduces part or all of the exhaust gas into a urea solution injection evaporator having a heating means by the heater 30, and the heat from the exhaust gas and the heat from the heater serve to generate ammonia that is then circled and mixed with the exhaust gas and introduced into the denitration catalyst reactor 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignees: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Babcock-Hitachi K.K.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Amou, Makoto Yamakado, Hiroshi Kusumoto, Masami Nagano, Ikuhisa Hamada, Toshifumi Mukai, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20070036694
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment system comprises an injector for injecting urea water into an exhaust duct, and a denitration catalyst disposed downstream of the injector with respect to a flow of exhaust gas. The exhaust aftertreatment system reduces nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas by the denitration catalyst while using ammonia produced from the urea water injected from the injector. The urea water is injected along a direction of the flow of the exhaust gas within the exhaust duct, and a porous plate is disposed in multiple stages in a space of the exhaust duct such that droplets of the injected urea water impinge against the porous plate before reaching a wall surface of the exhaust duct. A surface of the porous plate subjected to the impingement of the droplets is arranged to face downstream with respect to the flow of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., Babcock-Hitachi K.K., Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nishioka, Kiyoshi Amou, Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Takehiko Kowatari, Yasunaga Hamada, Ikuhisa Hamada, Toshifumi Mukai, Yoshinori Taguchi, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20060245296
    Abstract: A cylinder-shaped flow passage in which a first fluid flows includes an internal cylinder which is smaller in diameter than the flow passage. A swirl-generating stator having four vanes is radially fixed in the internal cylinder. A header space for supplying a second fluid is provided to the outer circumference of a wall surface of the internal cylinder in contact with flow separation areas which are formed along downstream surfaces of the swirl-generating stator as the first fluid runs into the swirl-generating stator. The wall surface of the internal cylinder is formed with openings through which the flow separation areas communicate with the header space. The second fluid supplied into the header space flows through the openings into the flow separation areas, and is diffused along the vanes of the swirl-generating stator to be swirled and mixed into the first fluid applied with swirling force by the swirl-generating stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicants: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Babcock-Hitachi K.K.
    Inventors: Akira Nishioka, Kiyoshi Amou, Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Takehiko Kowatari, Yasunaga Hamada, Ikuhisa Hamada, Toshifumi Mukai, Yoshinori Taguchi, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Publication number: 20050013756
    Abstract: To provide an engine exhaust gas treatment system that can efficiently reduce and remove NOx using easy-to-handle urea as the reducing agent, regardless of the engine operating conditions. An exhaust gas denitration system in which an exhaust gas is introduced into the denitration catalyst reactor 5 provided in the exhaust gas flue 3, where NOx is reduced and removed in the presence of the denitration catalyst, wherein a diversion means provided in the exhaust gas flue 3 introduces part or all of the exhaust gas into a urea solution injection evaporator having a heating means by the heater 30, and the heat from the exhaust gas and the heat from the heater serve to generate ammonia that is then circled and mixed with the exhaust gas and introduced into the denitration catalyst reactor 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Amou, Makoto Yamakado, Hiroshi Kusumoto, Masami Nagano, Ikuhisa Hamada, Toshifumi Mukai, Hiroshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 5409681
    Abstract: A catalyst for purifying an exhaust gas includes a first component having activity for reducing nitrogen oxides with ammonia and a second component having at least one of activity for forming nitrogen oxide from ammonia and activity for forming carbon dioxide from carbon monoxide. The first component is a composition containing an oxide of at least one member selected from titanium, vanadium, tungsten and molybdenum and the second component is a composition containing a salt of a noble metal selected from platinum, palladium and rhodium or any one of these noble metals supported on a porous material selected from zeolites, alumina and silica. The invention further provides a method for purifying an exhaust gas containing NOx, CO and leak NH.sub.3 using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Kato, Kunihiko Konishi, Fumito Nakajima, Ikuhisa Hamada, Isato Morita
  • Patent number: 5294584
    Abstract: A process for producing a denitration catalyst comprising the following steps of immersing a base material composed of an inorganic fiber cloth in an aqueous slurry containing 5 to 20% by weight of at least one sol-form substance selected from the group consisting of silica sol, titania sol and zirconia sol, as a first component, 20 to 70% by weight of at least one inorganic oxide fine powder selected from the group consisting of those of titania, zirconia and cordierite, as a second component, and 1 to 3% by weight of at least one organic binder selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate and carboxymethyl cellulose, as a third component, removing superfluous liquid from the resulting base material, drying the base material, coating catalyst components onto the surface of the dried base material, and drying and calcining the resulting material, are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naomi Yoshida, Hitoshi Yamasaki, Ikuhisa Hamada, Yasuyoshi Kato, Kunihiko Konishi, Toshiaki Matsuda, Yuji Fukuda
  • Patent number: 5155083
    Abstract: A catalyst for reducing nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas with ammonia, having a catalyst composition coated on an inorganic fiber cloth as a substrate is provided. The inorganic fiber cloth is impregnated with at least one inorganic oxide selected from silica and said catalyst composition, preferably with an organic binder like polyvinyl alcohol, so that the weight ratio of the inorganic oxide/said inorganic fiber cloth is in the range of 0.05 to 0.8 and the inorganic oxide is substantially placed between the fibers constituting said inorganic fiber cloth.The above inorganic fiber cloth is preferably a glass fiber cloth, more preferably a glass fiber cloth which surface is acid-treated to have a layer deficient in alumina and calcium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naomi Yoshida, Hitoshi Yamasaki, Ikuhisa Hamada, Yasuyoshi Kato, Kunihiko Konishi, Toshiaki Matsuda, Yuji Fukuda
  • Patent number: 5059576
    Abstract: A catalyst or a catalyst structure for removing nitrogen oxides contained in exhaust gases, having a small pressure loss and hard to cause ash deposition, and a process for producing the same are provided, which catalyst comprises a mixture of a catalyst composition of titanium oxide and at least one member of oxides of vanadium, molybdenum and tungsten, and inorganic fibers, the clearances of the inorganic fibers are filled with said catalyst composition; the ration by weight of said catalyst composition to said inorganic fibers is 3 or more; and the apparent density of said catalyst is 0.8 g/cm.sup.3 or more; and which process comprises providing a composition containing titanium oxide and at least one member of oxides of vanadium, molybdenum and tungsten, calcining said composition at 500.degree.-650.degree. C., crushing the calcined material so that powder of 20.mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Kato, Fumito Nakajima, Ikuhisa Hamada, Masahiro Nitta, Kunihiko Konishi, Toshiaki Matsuda, Naomi Yoshida, Nobuyoshi Ishida, Hitoshi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 4991520
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pulverized coal ignition burner apparatus for use with a pulverized coal boiler or the like for a thermal power plant. The apparatus is so constructed that the pulverized coal is directly burned without generation of a large amount of NOx and without using auxiliary fuel such as light oil, heavy oil and gas that are needed in the conventional apparatus. In the pulverized coal burner apparatus, an ignition region (39) in which a density of the pulverized coal of the mixture of the air and the pulverized coal supplied from a pulverized coal supply source (18) to a pulverized coal burner (4 to 9) by means of a delivery system (23, 50) is enhanced and the flow rate of the mixture flow is low is formed within the pulverized coal burner. The pulverized coal within this region is ignited by an igniter (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tsumura, Ryuichi Sugita, Yasuhide Sakaguchi, Ikuhisa Hamada, Akira Baba