Patents by Inventor Junji Shinoda

Junji Shinoda 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: 8167037
    Abstract: A method and system for feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas into the ground, by which liquefied carbon-dioxide gas can be efficiently permeated and diffused in a deep aquifer. The disclosed method for feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas into the ground includes the following steps:using a pumping well to pump up water from a deep aquifer to aboveground; creating injection water; applying pulsatile hydraulic pressure to the injection water; feeding the injection water to which pulsatile hydraulic pressure has been applied into the deep aquifer via an injection well; feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas—while maintaining carbon-dioxide gas in a liquefied condition—from a storage tank into the injection well to a depth having such pressure and temperature in which the liquefied condition can be maintained; mixing the liquefied carbon-dioxide gas—in the form of fine droplets—with the injection water, thereby generating a mixture of those two liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Mizuho Information & Research Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Koide, Junji Shinoda
  • Patent number: 8096934
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for treating carbon dioxide, and a method by which such treated carbon dioxide can be stored underground at low cost and with high efficiency. The present invention' method for storing carbon dioxide underground includes: a step for pumping up to the ground groundwater from a pumping well in a deep aquifer, and then producing injection water. Carbon dioxide that has been separated and recovered from exhaust gas from a plant facility is changed into the bubbles. The bubbles are mixed with the injection water, and hereby produces a gas-liquid mixture a step for injecting into. The deep aquifer is injected into the gas-liquid mixture from the injection well. The method preferably further includes a step for dissolving a cation-forming material in the injection water, and a step for injecting the injection water, in which the cation-forming material is dissolved, into the deep acquifer at its top and above the place at which injection water has already been injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Mizuho Information & Research Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Koide, Junji Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20110017456
    Abstract: To provide a method and device for feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas into the ground, by which liquefied carbon-dioxide gas can be efficiently permeated and diffused in a deep aquifer. The present invention's method for feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas into the ground includes the following steps: using a pumping well to pump up water from a deep aquifer to aboveground; creating injection water; applying pulsatile hydraulic pressure to the injection water; feeding the injection water to which pulsatile hydraulic pressure has been applied into the deep aquifer via an injection well; feeding liquefied carbon-dioxide gas—while maintaining said gas in a liquefied condition—from a storage tank into the injection well to a depth having such pressure and temperature in which the liquefied condition can be maintained; mixing the liquefied carbon-dioxide gas—in the form of fine droplets—with the injection water, thereby generating a mixture of those two liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Hitoshi Koide, Junji Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20090202304
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for treating carbon dioxide, and a method by which such treated carbon dioxide can be stored underground at low cost and with high efficiency. The present invention' method for storing carbon dioxide underground includes: a step for pumping up to the ground groundwater from a pumping well in a deep aquifer, and then producing injection water. Carbon dioxide that has been separated and recovered from exhaust gas from a plant facility is changed into the bubbles. The bubbles are mixed with the injection water, and hereby produces a gas-liquid mixture a step for injecting into. The deep aquifer is injected into the gas-liquid mixture from the injection well. The method preferably further includes a step for dissolving a cation-forming material in the injection water, and a step for injecting the injection water, in which the cation-forming material is dissolved, into the deep acquifer at its top and above the place at which injection water has already been injected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicants: Hitoshi Kode, Mizuho Information & Research Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Koide, Junji Shinoda
  • Patent number: 6817427
    Abstract: This invention aims to provide a gas-hydrate extracting device and method whereby a high-performance jet fluid is injected from a nozzle at the tip of an extraction pipe inserted into a gas-hydrate stratum, and whereby said jet fluid breaks said stratum so as to form a gas-hydrate mixed fluid that is transferred to surface of the earth, and whereby the void resulting from the removal of said gas hydrate is filled with the components of said high-performance jet fluid and a void-refilling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignees: Tobishima Corporation, Fuji Research Institute Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Matsuo, Sosuke Kurosaka, Yutaka Yanagimori, Shuntaro Asano, Junji Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20030136585
    Abstract: This invention aims to provide a gas-hydrate extracting device and method whereby a high-performance jet fluid is injected from a nozzle at the tip of an extraction pipe inserted into a gas-hydrate stratum, and whereby said jet fluid breaks said stratum so as to form a gas-hydrate mixed fluid that is transferred to surface of the earth, and whereby the void resulting from the removal of said gas hydrate is filled with the components of said high-performance jet fluid and a void-refilling fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Applicant: TOBISHIMA CORPORATION & FUJI RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORP.
    Inventors: Katsuya Matsuo, Sosuke Kurosaka, Yutaka Yanagimori, Shuntaro Asano, Junji Shinoda
  • Patent number: 4827530
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for recognizing a Korean character to be assembled from an inputted Korean alphabet row and an apparatus therefor includes, in the method the steps of judging whether an inputted Korean alphabet row is monoconsonants or double consonants among consonants and judging whether it is horizontal vowels or vertical vowels among vowels, and assembling a Korean character on the basis of a judgement as to whether any combination of monoconsonants is possible or any combination of horizontal vowels and vertical vowels is possible and a judgement as to whether any double consonant can be arranged as the final consonant in conformity with the assembled status of the Korean alphabet row previously inputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Yamaguchi, Junji Shinoda