Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Noto

Kazuhiko Noto 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: 11178137
    Abstract: A data communication system has an IoT device, an information processing device capable of performing communication with the IoT device, and a server capable of performing communication with the IoT device and the information processing device. When a coupling request from the IoT device is received, the information processing device requests the server for a tentative common key which is temporarily valid. When a request for a tentative common key from the information processing device is received, the server generates a tentative common key and transmits the tentative common key to the information processing device. The information processing device transmits the received tentative common key to the IoT device, and the IoT device and the server perform authentication by using the tentative common key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahide Todoroki, Koichi Sato, Kazuhiko Noto
  • Publication number: 20190379655
    Abstract: A data communication system has an IoT device, an information processing device capable of performing communication with the IoT device, and a server capable of performing communication with the IoT device and the information processing device. When a coupling request from the IoT device is received, the information processing device requests the server for a tentative common key which is temporarily valid. When a request for a tentative common key from the information processing device is received, the server generates a tentative common key and transmits the tentative common key to the information processing device. The information processing device transmits the received tentative common key to the IoT device, and the IoT device and the server perform authentication by using the tentative common key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takahide TODOROKI, Koichi SATO, Kazuhiko NOTO
  • Patent number: 10071929
    Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Sekine, Kazuhiko Noto, Akira Sasaki, Kotaro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 10005688
    Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Sekine, Kazuhiko Noto, Akira Sasaki, Kotaro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9988294
    Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Sekine, Kazuhiko Noto, Akira Sasaki, Kotaro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9988293
    Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Sekine, Kazuhiko Noto, Akira Sasaki, Kotaro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 9758393
    Abstract: Provided is a fresh water generation system which filters biotreated water produced by microbiologically treating waste water via a primary semi-permeable membrane (8), and then mixes concentrated water rejected by the filtration with seawater, thereby to filter the mixed water via a secondary semi-permeable membrane (14). This system enables frequencies of chemical cleaning and replacement of the secondary semi-permeable membrane to be reduced. The fresh water generation system comprises: a primary semi-permeable membrane apparatus (9) which separates microorganism treating waste water into permeated water and concentrated water; a secondary semi-permeable membrane apparatus (13) which filters mixed water prepared by mixing the concentrated water into seawater. In the fresh water generation system, the primary semi-permeable membrane (8) has an equal to or a higher microorganism adhesive property than the secondary semi-permeable membrane (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: HITACHI, LTD., TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Noto, Kotaro Kitamura, Yusuke Okawa, Hiroo Takabatake
  • Publication number: 20170121203
    Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with; a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori SEKINE, Kazuhiko NOTO, Akira SASAKI, Kotaro KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170121202
    Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori SEKINE, Kazuhiko NOTO, Akira SASAKI, Kotaro KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170120195
    Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori SEKINE, Kazuhiko NOTO, Akira SASAKI, Kotaro KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140263013
    Abstract: Provided is a fresh water generation system which filters biotreated water produced by microbiologically treating waste water via a primary semi-permeable membrane (8), and then mixes concentrated water rejected by the filtration with seawater, thereby to filter the mixed water via a secondary semi-permeable membrane (14). This system enables frequencies of chemical cleaning and replacement of the secondary semi-permeable membrane to be reduced. The fresh water generation system comprises: a primary semi-permeable membrane apparatus (9) which separates microorganism treating waste water into permeated water and concentrated water; a secondary semi-permeable membrane apparatus (13) which filters mixed water prepared by mixing the concentrated water into seawater. In the fresh water generation system, the primary semi-permeable membrane (8) has an equal to or a higher microorganism adhesive property than the secondary semi-permeable membrane (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Noto, Kotaro Kitamura, Yusuke Okawa, Hiroo Takabatake
  • Publication number: 20140151283
    Abstract: This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Sekine, Kazuhiko Noto, Akira Sasaki, Kotaro Kitamura
  • Patent number: 7992724
    Abstract: To reuse support plate and to fix a membrane sheet by the same method both in a new product manufacturing and in regeneration. In a flat membrane element including a deposit fixed portion formed by lapping a membrane sheet performing solid-liquid separation onto a support plate supporting the membrane sheet and by emitting a laser to a circumferential edge of the membrane sheet to deposit fix the member sheet onto the support plate, and making an inside of the membrane sheet surrounded by the deposit fixed portion be a solid-liquid separating area; an embrocation having laser absorption property is applied on the surface of the membrane sheet of the deposit fixed portion. At the time of regeneration, such a portion of the membrane sheet that corresponds to the solid-liquid separating area is cut off and, after that, a new membrane sheet is lapped on the embrocation and the new membrane sheet and the embrocation are deposit fixed by a laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Takemura, Kazuhiko Noto, Mitsuru Hatanaka, Takashi Fujimoto, Tatsuaki Tagashira
  • Publication number: 20110174709
    Abstract: The wastewater treatment system according to the present invention includes a plurality of reaction sequences including a first sedimentation tank, a reaction tank, a final sedimentation tank, a first channel which connects the first sedimentation tank and the reaction tank and a second channel which connects the reaction tank and the final sedimentation tank. In one reaction sequence of the plurality of reaction sequences, the reaction tank has a membrane separation tank including a carrier, a membrane unit, and activated sludge and in which an MLSS concentration of the activated sludge is in a range of 500 mg/L to 7000 mg/L, and wastewater is supplied to the reaction tank via the first channel, and wastewater in a quantity exceeding a treatment capacity of the reaction tank is supplied to the final sedimentation tank via the second channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Naomichi MORI, Kazuhiko Noto, Makoto Onishi
  • Patent number: 7604130
    Abstract: To reuse support plate and to fix a membrane sheet by the same method both in a new product manufacturing and in regeneration. In a flat membrane element including a deposit fixed portion formed by lapping a membrane sheet performing solid-liquid separation onto a support plate supporting the membrane sheet and by emitting a laser to a circumferential edge of the membrane sheet to deposit fix the member sheet onto the support plate, and making an inside of the membrane sheet surrounded by the deposit fixed portion be a solid-liquid separating area; an embrocation having laser absorption property is applied on the surface of the membrane sheet of the deposit fixed portion. At the time of regeneration, such a portion of the membrane sheet that corresponds to the solid-liquid separating area is cut off and, after that, a new membrane sheet is lapped on the embrocation and the new membrane sheet and the embrocation are deposit fixed by a laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Takemura, Kazuhiko Noto, Mitsuru Hatanaka, Takashi Fujimoto, Tatsuaki Tagashira
  • Publication number: 20090202746
    Abstract: To reuse support plate and to fix a membrane sheet by the same method both in a new product manufacturing and in regeneration. In a flat membrane element including a deposit fixed portion formed by lapping a membrane sheet performing solid-liquid separation onto a support plate supporting the membrane sheet and by emitting a laser to a circumferential edge of the membrane sheet to deposit fix the member sheet onto the support plate, and making an inside of the membrane sheet surrounded by the deposit fixed portion be a solid-liquid separating area; an embrocation having laser absorption property is applied on the surface of the membrane sheet of the deposit fixed portion. At the time of regeneration, such a portion of the membrane sheet that corresponds to the solid-liquid separating area is cut off and, after that, a new membrane sheet is lapped on the embrocation and the new membrane sheet and the embrocation are deposit fixed by a laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Takemura, Kazuhiko Noto, Mitsuru Hatanaka, Takashi Fujimoto, Tatsuaki Tagashira
  • Publication number: 20070158254
    Abstract: To reuse support plate and to fix a membrane sheet by the same method both in a new product manufacturing and in regeneration. In a flat membrane element 10 including a deposit fixed portion 18 formed by lapping a membrane sheet 14 performing solid-liquid separation onto a support plate 12 supporting the membrane sheet 14 and by emitting a laser to a circumferential edge of the membrane sheet 14 to deposit fix the member sheet 14 onto the support plate 12, and making an inside of the membrane sheet 14 surrounded by the deposit fixed portion 18 be a solid-liquid separating area 20; an embrocation 22 having laser absorption property is applied on the surface of the membrane sheet 14 of the deposit fixed portion 18. At the time of regeneration, such a portion of the membrane sheet 14 that corresponds to the solid-liquid separating area 20 is cut off and, after that, a new membrane sheet is lapped on the embrocation 22 and the new membrane sheet and the embrocation 22 are deposit fixed by a laser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Takemura, Kazuhiko Noto, Mitsuru Hatanaka, Takashi Fujimoto, Tatsuaki Tagashira
  • Publication number: 20070119776
    Abstract: Entrapping immobilization pellets in which anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria are entrapped and immobilized in an immobilizing material, comprising: fine activated carbon powder and/or fine metal powder such as magnetite or iron powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuichi Isaka, Tatsuo Sumino, Kazuhiko Noto
  • Patent number: 6033569
    Abstract: In a method of biologically removing nitrogen and a system therefor according to the present invention, by utilizing the characteristics of AH bacteria as being nitrifying bacteria of nitrous acid type for displaying high activity at the high concentration of ammonium nitrogen and the characteristics of AL bacteria as being nitrifying bacteria of nitrous acid type for displaying high activity at the low concentration of the ammonium nitrogen, in the nitrifying process, operations capable of obtaining the maximum nitrifying speed in accordance with the concentration of the ammonium nitrogen can be performed, and the nitrifying reaction of nitrous acid type for producing nitrous acid as being an intermediate oxide material of the ammonium nitrogen can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Sumino, Nobuko Hashimoto, Hiroki Nakamura, Kazuhiko Noto, Takako Ogasawara, Masaaki Shirai, Hiroyoshi Emori, Masataka Kasai
  • Patent number: D651280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Okawa, Kazuhiko Noto, Yasuyuki Okuno