Patents by Inventor Kanji Imura

Kanji Imura 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).

  • Microbubble cleaning system for a large product such as a vehicle
    Patent number: 8636018
    Abstract: A microbubble cleaning system includes a tank in which a solution into which a product is immersed to clean the product is stored; supplying means for putting microbubbles into the solution and supplying the solution that includes the microbubbles into the tank; oil separating apparatus that collects bubbles that have risen to a surface of the solution stored in the tank as a result of cleaning the product, as well as a portion of the solution that is near the surface of the solution, in order to separate oil from the solution; generating means for generating a surface flow of the solution near the surface of the solution in order to remove the bubbles that have risen to the surface of the solution in the tank; and removing means for removing carbon dioxide from air that is used to generate the microbubbles by the supplying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kozuka, Masahiro Inoue, Kanji Imura, Yuji Nemoto
  • MICROBUBBLE CLEANING SYSTEM FOR A LARGE PRODUCT SUCH AS A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20120312324
    Abstract: A microbubble cleaning system includes a tank in which a solution into which a product is immersed to clean the product is stored; supplying means for putting microbubbles into the solution and supplying the solution that includes the microbubbles into the tank; oil separating apparatus that collects bubbles that have risen to a surface of the solution stored in the tank as a result of cleaning the product, as well as a portion of the solution that is near the surface of the solution, in order to separate oil from the solution; generating means for generating a surface flow of the solution near the surface of the solution in order to remove the bubbles that have risen to the surface of the solution in the tank; and removing means for removing carbon dioxide from air that is used to generate the microbubbles by the supplying means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kozuka, Masahiro Inoue, Kanji Imura, Yuji Nemoto