Patents by Inventor Kousuke Chiba

Kousuke Chiba 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: 10689278
    Abstract: Control over the wastewater purification can be achieved through controlling delivery of gas-dispersion return sludge solely to an aerobic reaction vessel. The gas-dispersion return sludge is created using pure oxygen or oxygen containing trace amounts of ozone as a reactive gas, which is blended with return sludge to create a mixture of gas and liquid, which is pressurized with an atomizer pump, and then at a pressure of not more than approximately 5.5 MPa, the mixture is passed through an atomizer which uses cavitation or ultrasound at a frequency of less than 12,000 KHz to instantly render the reactive gas in the mixture to an ultra-fine bubble state. A portion of the gas is placed into a dissolved state, reaching a state of supersaturation with a high DO value of 20-40 mg/l, and causing the remaining ultra-fine bubbles to create an ultra-fine bubble condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Ohki, Kousuke Chiba, Whitney Rich
  • Publication number: 20200055757
    Abstract: Control over the wastewater purification can be achieved through controlling delivery of gas-dispersion return sludge solely to an aerobic reaction vessel. The gas-dispersion return sludge is created using pure oxygen or oxygen containing trace amounts of ozone as a reactive gas, which is blended with return sludge to create a mixture of gas and liquid, which is pressurized with an atomizer pump, and then at a pressure of not more than approximately 5.5 MPa, the mixture is passed through an atomizer which uses cavitation or ultrasound at a frequency of less than 12,000 KHz to instantly render the reactive gas in the mixture to an ultra-fine bubble state. A portion of the gas is placed into a dissolved state, reaching a state of supersaturation with a high DO value of 20-40 mg/l, and causing the remaining ultra-fine bubbles to create an ultra-fine bubble condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Ohki, Kousuke Chiba, Whitney Rich
  • Publication number: 20190322559
    Abstract: Control over the wastewater purification can be achieved through controlling delivery of gas-dispersion return sludge solely to an aerobic reaction vessel. The gas-dispersion return sludge is created using pure oxygen or oxygen containing trace amounts of ozone as a reactive gas, which is blended with return sludge to create a mixture of gas and liquid, which is pressurized with an atomizer pump, and then at a pressure of not more than approximately 5.5 MPa, the mixture is passed through an atomizer which uses cavitation or ultrasound at a frequency of less than 12,000 KHz to instantly render the reactive gas in the mixture to an ultra-fine bubble state. A portion of the gas is placed into a dissolved state, reaching a state of supersaturation with a high DO value of 20-40 mg/l, and causing the remaining ultra-fine bubbles to create an ultra-fine bubble condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Ohki, Kousuke Chiba, Whitney Rich
  • Patent number: 10435319
    Abstract: Control over the wastewater purification can be achieved through controlling delivery of gas-dispersion return sludge solely to an aerobic reaction vessel. The gas-dispersion return sludge is created using pure oxygen or oxygen containing trace amounts of ozone as a reactive gas, which is blended with return sludge to create a mixture of gas and liquid, which is pressurized with an atomizer pump, and then at a pressure of not more than approximately 5.5 MPa, the mixture is passed through an atomizer which uses cavitation or ultrasound at a frequency of less than 12,000 KHz to instantly render the reactive gas in the mixture to an ultra-fine bubble state. A portion of the gas is placed into a dissolved state, reaching a state of supersaturation with a high DO value of 20-40 mg/l, and causing the remaining ultra-fine bubbles to create an ultra-fine bubble condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Ohki, Kousuke Chiba, Whitney Rich
  • Patent number: 10167214
    Abstract: Control over the wastewater purification can be achieved through controlling delivery of gas-dispersion return sludge solely to an aerobic reaction vessel. The gas-dispersion return sludge is created using pure oxygen or oxygen containing trace amounts of ozone as a reactive gas, which is blended with return sludge to create a mixture of gas and liquid, which is pressurized with an atomizer pump, and then at a pressure of not more than approximately 5.5 MPa, the mixture is passed through an atomizer which uses cavitation or ultrasound at a frequency of less than 12,000 KHz to instantly render the reactive gas in the mixture to an ultra-fine bubble state. A portion of the gas is placed into a dissolved state, reaching a state of supersaturation with a high DO value of 20-40 mg/l, and causing the remaining ultra-fine bubbles to create an ultra-fine bubble condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Ohki, Kousuke Chiba, Whitney Rich
  • Patent number: 7534351
    Abstract: There is provided a reaction system capable of, in the feeding of liquid stored after gas-liquid mixing into waste water to be treated of a reaction tank, conditioning the interior of the reaction tank to a pressurized state so as to simultaneously accomplish enhancement of utilization efficiency of gas phase and further reduction of the amount of excess sludge generated. There is further provided a biological purification process characterized in that microorganisms fulfill purification activity in a pressurized reaction tank having a pressure other than deep water pressure applied thereto. Preferably, together with water to be treated, reactant gas such as pure oxygen, ozone-containing oxygen (ozonized oxygen) or air is fed into the pressurized reaction tank. With respect to gas and liquid fed into the reaction tank, preferably, reactant gas is fed in the form of dissolved gas or microbubbles by means of a gas-liquid mixing unit (line atomizer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignees: C & R Co.
    Inventor: Kousuke Chiba
  • Publication number: 20080223782
    Abstract: There is provided a reaction system capable of, in the feeding of liquid stored after gas-liquid mixing into waste water to be treated of a reaction tank, conditioning the interior of the reaction tank to a pressurized state so as to simultaneously accomplish enhancement of utilization efficiency of gas phase and further reduction of the amount of excess sludge generated. There is further provided a biological purification process characterized in that microorganisms fulfill purification activity in a pressurized reaction tank having a pressure other than deep water pressure applied thereto. Preferably, together with water to be treated, reactant gas such as pure oxygen, ozone-containing oxygen (ozonized oxygen) or air is fed into the pressurized reaction tank. With respect to gas and liquid fed into the reaction tank, preferably, reactant gas is fed in the form of dissolved gas or microbubbles by means of a gas-liquid mixing unit (line atomizer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventor: Kousuke Chiba
  • Patent number: 7105092
    Abstract: Disclosed is a waste water disposal process in the biosolid method according to a line atomizing treatment in which a reactive gas containing oxygen or oxygen and ozone as hardly soluble gases is dissolved/stored in water as being converted into ultrafine bubbles. The characteristic feature is that, by forming a gas-dispersion liquid in which the reactive gas containing oxygen or oxygen and ozone is dispersed in the form of ultrafine bubbles in returned biosolid water or in clean water at outside of the vessels (pools) of the waste water treatment system and by introducing the aforementioned gas-dispersion liquid into a reaction vessel (aerobic or anaerobic), oxygen is supplied to the microorganisms. Alternatively, the aforementioned gas-dispersion liquid is introduced into a vessel in the step preceding the reaction vessel or succeeding the reaction vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignees: C & R Co., Kousuke Chiba
    Inventor: Kousuke Chiba
  • Publication number: 20050258094
    Abstract: Disclosed is a waste water disposal process in the biosolid method according to a line atomizing treatment in which a reactive gas containing oxygen or oxygen and ozone as hardly soluble gases is dissolved/stored in water as being converted into ultrafine bubbles. The characteristic feature is that, by forming a gas-dispersion liquid in which the reactive gas containing oxygen or oxygen and ozone is dispersed in the form of ultrafine bubbles in returned biosolid water or in clean water at outside of the vessels (pools) of the waste water treatment system and by introducing the aforementioned gas-dispersion liquid into a reaction vessel (aerobic or anaerobic), oxygen is supplied to the microorganisms. Alternatively, the aforementioned gas-dispersion liquid is introduced into a vessel in the step preceding the reaction vessel or succeeding the reaction vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Applicant: C & R Co. and Kousuke Chiba
    Inventor: Kousuke Chiba