Patents by Inventor Keiji Higashi
Keiji Higashi 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).
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Publication number: 20140050891Abstract: The raw coke materials of a carbon material for a negative electrode of a lithium ion secondary battery is a striped agglomerate obtained by a delayed coking method under a condition that the ratio of the generation rate (mass %) of a generated gas, which includes a hydrogen gas generated by subjecting a heavy oil to coking and C1-C4 gases and the formation rate (mass %) of the raw coke materials (generation rate/formation rate) is from 0.3 to 0.8, and wherein, when an average length of the base of the stripes is defined as W, an average height is defined as H, and an average length in the vertical direction is defined as L, H/W is from 0.15 to 0.40 and L/W is 5.0 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Tamotsu TANO, Hiroshi Ozawa, Keiji Higashi, Takashi Oyama, Masatoshi Nishida
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Patent number: 8226921Abstract: The present invention provides a raw coke having such a structure that the graphitized product resulting from graphitization of the raw coke at a temperature of 2800° C. under an inactive gas atmosphere will have ratios of the crystallite size to the lattice constant of 360 or less in the (002) plane and 1500 or less in the (110) plane, as a raw coke providing active carbon produced by alkali-activating the raw coke, which is reduced in remaining alkali content and can simplify washing operation because washing liquid can easily pass through the activated carbon, or as a raw coke for the production of needle coke.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignees: Nippon Oil Corporation, Nippon Petroleum Refining Company, LimitedInventors: Takashi Oyama, Kazuhisa Nakanishi, Tamotsu Tano, Keiji Higashi, Ippei Fujinaga, Hiromitsu Hashisaka, Toshitaka Fujii, Takashi Noro, Akio Sakamoto, Kiwamu Takeshita, Keizou Ikai, Masaki Fujii, Hideki Ono
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Patent number: 8197788Abstract: The present invention provides a raw coke having such a structure that the graphitized product resulting from graphitization of the raw coke at a temperature of 2800° C. under an inactive gas atmosphere will have ratios of the crystallite size to the lattice constant of 360 or less in the (002) plane and 1500 or less in the (110) plane, as a raw coke providing active carbon produced by alkali-activating the raw coke, which is reduced in remaining alkali content and can simplify washing operation because washing liquid can easily pass through the activated carbon, or as a raw coke for the production of needle coke.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignees: Nippon Oil Corporation, Nippon Petroleum Refining Company, LimitedInventors: Takashi Oyama, Kazuhisa Nakanishi, Tamotsu Tano, Keiji Higashi, Ippei Fujinaga, Hiromitsu Hashisaka, Toshitaka Fujii, Takashi Noro, Akio Sakamoto, Kiwamu Takeshita, Keizou Ikai, Masaki Fujii, Hideki Ono
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Patent number: 8137530Abstract: A process is provided for producing petroleum coke that is high in strength and sufficiently small in thermal expansion coefficient and sufficiently suppressed from puffing. The process includes coking a feedstock containing a first heavy oil having a sulfur content of 1.0 percent by mass or less, a nitrogen content of 0.5 percent by mass or less, and an aromatic index of 0.1 or greater, produced by hydrodesulfurizing a heavy oil with a sulfur content of 1 percent by mass or more under conditions (1) where the total pressure is 10 MPa or greater and less than 16 MPa and the hydrogen partial pressure is 5 MPa or greater and 16 MPa or less or conditions (2) where the total pressure is 20 MPa or greater and 25 MPa or less and the hydrogen partial pressure is greater than 20 MPa and 25 MPa or less, and a second heavy oil with an aromatic index of 0.3 or greater and an initial boiling point of 150° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Nippon Petroleum Refining Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tamotsu Tano, Takashi Oyama, Kazuhisa Nakanishi, Toshiyuki Oda, Keiji Higashi
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Publication number: 20110267737Abstract: The present invention provides a raw coke having such a structure that the graphitized product resulting from graphitization of the raw coke at a temperature of 2800° C. under an inactive gas atmosphere will have ratios of the crystallite size to the lattice constant of 360 or less in the (002) plane and 1500 or less in the (110) plane, as a raw coke providing active carbon produced by alkali-activating the raw coke, which is reduced in remaining alkali content and can simplify washing operation because washing liquid can easily pass through the activated carbon, or as a raw coke for the production of needle coke.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicants: NIPPON PETROLEUM REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED, NIPPON OIL CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi OYAMA, Kazuhisa NAKANISHI, Tamotsu TANO, Keiji HIGASHI, Ippei FUJINAGA, Hiromitsu HASHISAKA, Toshitaka FUJII, Takashi NORO, Akio SAKAMOTO, Kiwamu TAKESHITA, Keizou IKAI, Masaki FUJII, Hideki ONO
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Publication number: 20110253593Abstract: The present invention provides a raw coke having such a structure that the graphitized product resulting from graphitization of the raw coke at a temperature of 2800° C. under an inactive gas atmosphere will have ratios of the crystallite size to the lattice constant of 360 or less in the (002) plane and 1500 or less in the (110) plane, as a raw coke providing active carbon produced by alkali-activating the raw coke, which is reduced in remaining alkali content and can simplify washing operation because washing liquid can easily pass through the activated carbon, or as a raw coke for the production of needle coke.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicants: NIPPON PETROLEUM REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED, NIPPON OIL CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi OYAMA, Kazuhisa NAKANISHI, Tamotsu TANO, Keiji HIGASHI, Ippei FUJINAGA, Hiromitsu HASHISAKA, Toshitaka FUJII, Takashi NORO, Akio SAKAMOTO, Kiwamu TAKESHITA, Keizou IKAI, Masaki FUJII, Hideki ONO
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Patent number: 7964173Abstract: The present invention provides feedstock compositions for use of the production of an activated carbon for electric double layer capacitor electrodes or the production of needle coke, comprising a first heavy oil with an initial boiling point of 300° C. or higher, an asphalten content of 12 percent by mass or less, a saturate content of 50 percent by mass or more and a sulfur content of 0.3 percent by mass or less, produced as a residue resulting from vacuum-distillation of a petroleum-based oil and a second heavy oil with an initial boiling point of 150° C. or higher and a sulfur content of 0.5 percent by mass or less, produced by subjecting a hydrocarbon oil to fluidized catalytic cracking.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignees: Nippon Oil Corporation, Nippon Petroleum Refining Company, LimitedInventors: Takashi Oyama, Kazuhisa Nakanishi, Tamotsu Tano, Keiji Higashi, Ippei Fujinaga, Hiromitsu Hashisaka, Kiwamu Takeshita, Masaki Fujii, Hideki Ono
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Patent number: 7959888Abstract: The present invention provides a raw coke having such a structure that the graphitized product resulting from graphitization of the raw coke at a temperature of 2800° C. under an inactive gas atmosphere will have ratios of the crystallite size to the lattice constant of 360 or less in the (002) plane and 1500 or less in the (110) plane, as a raw coke providing active carbon produced by alkali-activating the raw coke, which is reduced in remaining alkali content and can simplify washing operation because washing liquid can easily pass through the activated carbon, or as a raw coke for the production of needle coke.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Nippon Oil Corporation, Nippon Petroleum Refining Company, LimitedInventors: Takashi Oyama, Kazuhisa Nakanishi, Tamotsu Tano, Keiji Higashi, Ippei Fujinaga, Hiromitsu Hashisaka, Toshitaka Fujii, Takashi Noro, Akio Sakamoto, Kiwamu Takeshita, Keizou Ikai, Masaki Fujii, Hideki Ono
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Publication number: 20100181228Abstract: A process is provided for producing petroleum coke that is high in strength and sufficiently small in thermal expansion coefficient and sufficiently suppressed from puffing. The process includes coking a feedstock containing a first heavy oil having a sulfur content of 1.0 percent by mass or less, a nitrogen content of 0.5 percent by mass or less, and an aromatic index of 0.1 or greater, produced by hydrodesulfurizing a heavy oil with a sulfur content of 1 percent by mass or more under conditions (1) where the total pressure is 10 MPa or greater and less than 16 MPa and the hydrogen partial pressure is 5 MPa or greater and 16 MPa or less or conditions (2) where the total pressure is 20 MPa or greater and 25 MPa or less and the hydrogen partial pressure is greater than 20 MPa and 25 MPa or less, and a second heavy oil with an aromatic index of 0.3 or greater and an initial boiling point of 150° C. or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: NIPPON PETROLEUM REFINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tamotsu Tano, Takashi Oyama, Kazuhisa Nakanishi, Toshiyuki Oda, Keiji Higashi
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Publication number: 20090268375Abstract: The present invention provides a raw coke having such a structure that the graphitized product resulting from graphitization of the raw coke at a temperature of 2800° C. under an inactive gas atmosphere will have ratios of the crystallite size to the lattice constant of 360 or less in the (002) plane and 1500 or less in the (110) plane, as a raw coke providing active carbon produced by alkali-activating the raw coke, which is reduced in remaining alkali content and can simplify washing operation because washing liquid can easily pass through the activated carbon, or as a raw coke for the production of needle coke.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2006Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicants: NIPPON OIL CORPORATION, NIPPON PETROLEUM REFINING COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Takashi Oyama, Kazuhisa Nakanishi, Tamotsu Tano, Keiji Higashi, Ippei Fujinaga, Hiromitsu Hashisaka, Toshitaka Fujii, Takashi Noro, Akio Sakamoto, Kiwamu Takeshita, Keizou Ikai, Masaki Fujii, Hideki Ono
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Publication number: 20090237860Abstract: The present invention provides feedstock compositions for use of the production of an activated carbon for electric double layer capacitor electrodes or the production of needle coke, comprising a first heavy oil with an initial boiling point of 300° C. or higher, an asphalten content of 12 percent by mass or less, a saturate content of 50 percent by mass or more and a sulfur content of 0.3 percent by mass or less, produced as a residue resulting from vacuum-distillation of a petroleum-based oil and a second heavy oil with an initial boiling point of 150° C. or higher and a sulfur content of 0.5 percent by mass or less, produced by subjecting a hydrocarbon oil to fluidized catalytic cracking.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2006Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicants: NIPPON OIL CORPORATION, NIPPON PETROLEUM REFINING COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Takashi Oyama, Kazuhisa Nakanishi, Tamotsu Tano, Keiji Higashi, Ippei Fujinaga, Hiromitsu Hashisaka, Kiwamu Takeshita, Masaki Fujii, Hideki Ono
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Publication number: 20020123002Abstract: A coating film 2 of an uncured resin composition which is curable in response to irradiation with an energy beam is formed on the surface of a molding 1. A desirable portion of the coating film 2 is irradiated with the energy beam. Thus, the portion of the coating film 2 irradiated with the energy beam is cured to form a surface decorative layer 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2001Publication date: September 5, 2002Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.Inventors: Mikio Masui, Keiji Higashi
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Patent number: 5676901Abstract: Consequently, the resin molding can be coated over the whole surface with a coating material uniformly and with an excellent adhesion.A molding material is compressed and molded with a mold comprising split molds and capable of forming a space between them outer periphery and slidable position of which are tapered, the molds are mutually separated before complete curing to define a space between at least one side surface of the molding and an opposing surface of the mold, a gas flow is formed inside the molds and in a direction towards the outer periphery for discharging any foreign material such as molding-flash and dust through the space to the exterior of the molds, and a fluid coating material is injected in the space between the molding and the surface of the mold and, with the molds clamped again, compressed to be cured.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 1994Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Higashi, Koichi Uesaki, Masunori Kobayakawa, Shusuke Matsumura, Hisanao Kajiura, Yoshikazu Maki, Yoshinori Uno, Shigeru Oka, Shigeo Yoshida, deceased, Kiyo Yoshida, executor, Tomo Yoshida, executor, Shikiko Yoshida, executor, Yukio Yoshida, executor