Patents by Inventor Kaoru INABA

Kaoru INABA 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: 11679425
    Abstract: A subsurface soil purification method including: warming an activator liquid, for stimulating decomposer microorganisms that decompose a contaminant in subsurface soil, to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, and feeding the activator liquid into the subsurface soil by injecting the activator liquid into an in-ground injection well; warming an activator liquid, for stimulating decomposer microorganisms that decompose a contaminant in subsurface soil, the decomposer microorganisms being infused in the activator liquid, to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, and feeding the activator liquid into the subsurface soil by injecting the activator liquid into an in-ground injection well, or warming a purification liquid for decomposing a contaminant in subsurface soil, to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, and feeding the purification liquid into the subsurface soil by injecting the purification liquid into an in-ground injection well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TAKENAKA CIVIL ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru Inaba, Yuji Yamazaki, Takaaki Shimizu, Nobuyasu Okuda, Yasuhide Furukawa, Tomohiro Nakashima, Haruka Kiyotomo, Kazuhiro Mukai, Masafumi Funakawa, Ai Hasegawa, Keisuke Omura, Kota Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11604097
    Abstract: A calibration method includes placing an LED light source having a given wavelength range inside a reference apparatus; acquiring first data as an emission intensity of light at a wavelength, a light amount of the light being adjusted in stages by changing the light amount output from the LED light source; storing the first data in a memory; placing the LED light source in a calibration target apparatus; acquiring second data as an emission intensity of light at a wavelength, a light amount of the light being adjusted in the stages by changing the light amount output from the LED light source; and calculating a calibration formula based on the first data stored in the memory and the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Kippei Sugita, Hana Sasaki, Kaoru Inaba, Mitsuru Dohiwa, Takashi Niinuma, Hikaru Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11231406
    Abstract: A ground injection agent concentration estimation method including a injecting an injection liquid to which an injection agent and a marker exhibiting similar behavior in subsurface ground to that of the injection agent have been added, into the subsurface ground through a water injection well; measuring a concentration of the marker at a location spaced apart from the water injection well, and estimating a concentration of the injection agent in the groundwater from the concentration of the marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TAKENAKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka Kiyotomo, Takaaki Shimizu, Tomohiro Nakashima, Yamato Shimizu, Nobuyasu Okuda, Yasuhide Furukawa, Yuji Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Mukai, Kaoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20210356324
    Abstract: A calibration method includes placing an LED light source having a given wavelength range inside a reference apparatus; acquiring first data as an emission intensity of light at a wavelength, a light amount of the light being adjusted in stages by changing the light amount output from the LED light source; storing the first data in a memory; placing the LED light source in a calibration target apparatus; acquiring second data as an emission intensity of light at a wavelength, a light amount of the light being adjusted in the stages by changing the light amount output from the LED light source; and calculating a calibration formula based on the first data stored in the memory and the second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kippei Sugita, Hana Sasaki, Kaoru Inaba, Mitsuru Dohiwa, Takashi Niinuma, Hikaru Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11084075
    Abstract: A subsurface soil purification method includes a first process of injecting a cleaning liquid, that separates a contaminant in subsurface soil from the subsurface soil and that has been warmed to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, into an injection well provided in the ground, and a second process of pumping up groundwater containing the cleaning liquid, in which the contaminant separated from the subsurface soil has been dissolved, from a pumping well that is provided in the ground so as to be spaced apart from the injection well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: TAKENAKA CORPORATION, TAKENAKA CIVIL ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yamazaki, Takaaki Shimizu, Nobuyasu Okuda, Yasuhide Furukawa, Tomohiro Nakashima, Haruka Kiyotomo, Kazuhiro Mukai, Kaoru Inaba, Koudai Mae, Masafumi Funakawa, Ai Hasegawa, Keisuke Omura, Kota Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11000885
    Abstract: A contaminated soil purification system for decomposing a contaminant in contaminated soil E. The contaminated soil purification system includes: injecting, into contaminated soil through a water injection well, an injection liquid containing a purification agent to decompose a contaminant or an activator to stimulate biological decomposition by the purification agent; a process of measuring a concentration of the purification agent or the activator in groundwater in an observation well or in a pumping well, the observation well or the pumping well being provided at a location spaced apart from the water injection well; and a process of, based on the concentration that has been measured, automatically controlling an addition amount of the purification agent or the activator to the injection liquid or automatically controlling a pumping amount of water from the pumping well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Takenaka Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nakashima, Takaaki Shimizu, Haruka Kiyotomo, Yamato Shimizu, Nobuyasu Okuda, Yasuhide Furukawa, Yuji Yamazaki, Kazuhiro Mukai, Kaoru Inaba
  • Publication number: 20200061683
    Abstract: A subsurface soil purification method including: warming an activator liquid, for stimulating decomposer microorganisms that decompose a contaminant in subsurface soil, to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, and feeding the activator liquid into the subsurface soil by injecting the activator liquid into an in-ground injection well; warming an activator liquid, for stimulating decomposer microorganisms that decompose a contaminant in subsurface soil, the decomposer microorganisms being infused in the activator liquid, to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, and feeding the activator liquid into the subsurface soil by injecting the activator liquid into an in-ground injection well, or warming a purification liquid for decomposing a contaminant in subsurface soil, to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, and feeding the purification liquid into the subsurface soil by injecting the purification liquid into an in-ground injection well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicants: TAKENAKA CORPORATION, TAKENAKA CIVIL ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kaoru INABA, Yuji YAMAZAKI, Takaaki SHIMIZU, Nobuyasu OKUDA, Yasuhide FURUKAWA, Tomohiro NAKASHIMA, Haruka KIYOTOMO, Kazuhiro MUKAI, Masafumi FUNAKAWA, Ai HASEGAWA, Keisuke OMURA, Kota TANABE
  • Publication number: 20190324008
    Abstract: A ground injection agent concentration estimation method including a injecting an injection liquid to which an injection agent and a marker exhibiting similar behavior in subsurface ground to that of the injection agent have been added, into the subsurface ground through a water injection well; measuring a concentration of the marker at a location spaced apart from the water injection well, and estimating a concentration of the injection agent in the groundwater from the concentration of the marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: TAKENAKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruka KIYOTOMO, Takaaki SHIMIZU, Tomohiro NAKASHIMA, Yamato SHIMIZU, Nobuyasu OKUDA, Yasuhide FURUKAWA, Yuji YAMAZAKI, Kazuhiro MUKAI, Kaoru INABA
  • Publication number: 20190232347
    Abstract: A contaminated soil purification system for decomposing a contaminant in contaminated soil E. The contaminated soil purification system includes: injecting, into contaminated soil through a water injection well, an injection liquid containing a purification agent to decompose a contaminant or an activator to stimulate biological decomposition by the purification agent; a process of measuring a concentration of the purification agent or the activator in groundwater in an observation well or in a pumping well, the observation well or the pumping well being provided at a location spaced apart from the water injection well; and a process of, based on the concentration that has been measured, automatically controlling an addition amount of the purification agent or the activator to the injection liquid or automatically controlling a pumping amount of water from the pumping well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: TAKENAKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro NAKASHIMA, Takaaki SHIMIZU, Haruka KIYOTOMO, Yamato SHIMIZU, Nobuyasu OKUDA, Yasuhide FURUKAWA, Yuji YAMAZAKI, Kazuhiro MUKAI, Kaoru INABA
  • Publication number: 20190193129
    Abstract: A subsurface soil purification method includes a first process of injecting a cleaning liquid, that separates a contaminant in subsurface soil from the subsurface soil and that has been warmed to a higher temperature than a groundwater temperature, into an injection well provided in the ground, and a second process of pumping up groundwater containing the cleaning liquid, in which the contaminant separated from the subsurface soil has been dissolved, from a pumping well that is provided in the ground so as to be spaced apart from the injection well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Yuji YAMAZAKI, Takaaki SHIMIZU, Nobuyasu OKUDA, Yasuhide FURUKAWA, Tomohiro NAKASHIMA, Haruka KIYOTOMO, Kazuhiro MUKAI, Kaoru INABA, Koudai MAE, Masafumi FUNAKAWA, Ai HASEGAWA, Keisuke OMURA, Kota TANABE