Patents by Inventor Kanetomo SATO

Kanetomo SATO 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: 11566267
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an organic substance from a syngas by microbial fermentation, wherein only the solid component can be efficiently separated from an organic substance-containing liquid obtained by microbial fermentation to reduce the content of microorganisms, etc. Disclosed is a method for producing an organic substance from a syngas containing carbon monoxide by microbial fermentation, which comprises a microbial fermentation step wherein the syngas is fed to a microbial fermenting vessel and a liquid containing an organic substance is obtained by microbial fermentation, a solid-liquid separation step wherein the organic substance-containing liquid is separated into a solid component containing microorganisms and a liquid component containing an organic substance, and an extraction step wherein the organic substance-containing liquid is extracted from the liquid component, wherein the organic substance-containing liquid is heated to 40° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SEKIGUJI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Shimizu, Kokoro Hamachi, Kazuto Natsuyama, Kanetomo Sato
  • Publication number: 20220334093
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining origin of carbon source of chemical substance, which makes it possible to determine whether resource-recycled carbon is used as a carbon raw material from a chemical substance in various goods. The method for determining origin of carbon source of chemical substance includes: a step S1 of acquiring a carbon-14 content rate R1 of a standard chemical substance having carbon element in which carbon has been recycled as a resource; a step S2 of acquiring a carbon-14 content rate R2 of a chemical substance to be identified; a step S3 of calculating a ratio (R2/R1) of the content rate R2 to the content rate R1; and a step S4 of determining that a carbon raw material in the chemical substance to be identified contains resource-recycled carbon based on the ratio (R2/R1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kanetomo SATO, Norio NUMATA
  • Publication number: 20210264269
    Abstract: The object is to provide a control device, an operation control device, a server, a management server, a recording medium, a neural network system model, a control method and an operation control method that enable reuse of combustible waste as industrial raw materials with high efficiency. A control device comprises a gas information acquisition unit that acquires gas information on gas converted by a gasifying furnace for converting collected waste to gas; a control information acquisition unit that acquires control information controlling the gas purification device for purifying gas converted by the gasifying furnace; a feature information acquisition unit that acquires feature information including information on purified gas purified by the gas purification device; and a creation unit that creates a learning model by machine learning based on the gas information, the control information and the feature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Kanetomo Sato, Kazuto Natsuyama, Kokoro Hamachi
  • Publication number: 20210079327
    Abstract: Provided is a device for continuously manufacturing an organic substance with high productivity, in which a means is installed whereby a synthesis gas having a specific nutrient source concentration for microbes in a continuous fermenter is stored with good efficiency and the gas composition thereof is made uniform in a stage prior to supplying the synthesis gas to the fermenter including microbes, so that uniformity of the synthesis gas composition is ensured. A device for manufacturing an organic substance, provided with a gas generating unit for gasifying a carbon source and generating a starting material gas, a gas supply unit for supplying a synthesis gas including the starting material gas to a fermenter, and a fermenter for microbial fermentation of the synthesis gas in the fermenter, a gas circulation unit for making the gas composition uniform being further provided between the gas generating unit and the gas supply unit or to the gas supply unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kokoro HAMACHI, Kanetomo SATO
  • Publication number: 20210054418
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an organic substance, in which an organic material (metabolite) derived from a microorganism is reduced while retaining a nutritive substance in an organic substance-containing solution discharged from a fermentation tank containing the microorganism, whereby various nutritional elements contained in the organic substance-containing solution can be reused with high efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Norihide NISHIYAMA, Kanetomo SATO
  • Publication number: 20210024963
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an organic substance from a syngas by microbial fermentation, wherein only the solid component can be efficiently separated from an organic substance-containing liquid obtained by microbial fermentation to reduce the content of microorganisms, etc. Disclosed is a method for producing an organic substance from a syngas containing carbon monoxide by microbial fermentation, which comprises a microbial fermentation step wherein the syngas is fed to a microbial fermenting vessel and a liquid containing an organic substance is obtained by microbial fermentation, a solid-liquid separation step wherein the organic substance-containing liquid is separated into a solid component containing microorganisms and a liquid component containing an organic substance, and an extraction step wherein the organic substance-containing liquid is extracted from the liquid component, wherein the organic substance-containing liquid is heated to 40° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi SHIMIZU, Kohoro HAMACHI, Kazuto NATSUYAMA, Kanetomo SATO