Patents by Inventor Masahiro Hagiwara

Masahiro Hagiwara 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: 7727405
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and equipments for demineralizing condensate, aiming at achieving high-purity effluent quality with a low concentration of sulfate ions derived from organic impurities leaching from cation resins in the condensate treatment by condensate demineralizers in nuclear power plants. The present invention relates to a condensate demineralizer for demineralizing condensate in a nuclear power plant, comprising a mixed bed of a strongly acidic gel-type cation exchange resin and a uniform particle size strongly basic porous anion exchange resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Izumi, Masahiro Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20090296873
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing a condensate demineralization treatment within a condensate demineralization apparatus of a nuclear power plant, which are capable of producing a high-purity treated water containing a low concentration of sulfate ions derived from the TOC eluted from a cation exchange resin. A condensate demineralization method for performing a demineralization treatment of a condensate from a nuclear power plant using an ion exchange resin, wherein the demineralization treatment of the condensate is performed by bringing the condensate into contact with an ion exchange resin bed that includes a mixed bed prepared by uniformly mixing a strongly acidic gel-type cation exchange resin and a strongly basic type 1 porous anion exchange resin having a cross-linking within a range from 1% to 4%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Takeshi IZUMI, Masahiro Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20090294367
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing condensate demineralization which are capable of producing a high-purity treated water containing low concentrations of sulfate ions and nitrate ions derived from TOC eluted from a cation exchange resin and anion exchange resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Takeshi IZUMI, Masahiro HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20070217995
    Abstract: A method for producing hydrogen wherein use is made of a high temperature steam electrolysis apparatus having an electrolysis vessel being partitioned into the anode side and the cathode side by the use of a solid oxide electrolyte film as a diaphragm, steam is fed to the above cathode side and a reducing gas is fed to the anode side, and steam electrolysis is carried out at a high temperature, characterized in that the reducing gas and the steam fed to the electrolysis vessel has a temperature of 200 to 500° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Chi Matsumura, Takahiro Oshita, Syuichi Ueno, Hideyuki Misawa, Masahiro Hagiwara, Itaru Shirasawa, Hiroshi Yokota, Akira Uchino, Junichi Hayakawa, Shinichi Isaka
  • Publication number: 20070131619
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multiple bed-type condensate demineralization method and apparatus for the method that are able to provide an improved treated water quality in ammonia operation by substantially reducing the cross contamination ratio during resin regeneration from the current cross contamination ratio. In the method of condensate demineralization using ion-exchange resin in a multiple-bed regime, condensate is passed through a resin layer having a multiple-bed structure in which an anion resin layer and a layer of a uniform particle size strong acid gel-type cation resin with a 10% to 16% degree of crosslinking, divided by a partition in such a manner that they do not mix with each other, are combined in alternation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Izumi, Masahiro Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20070051683
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and equipments for demineralizing condensate, aiming at achieving high-purity effluent quality with a low concentration of sulfate ions derived from organic impurities leaching from cation resins in the condensate treatment by condensate demineralizers in nuclear power plants. The present invention relates to a condensate demineralizer for demineralizing condensate in a nuclear power plant, comprising a mixed bed of a strongly acidic gel-type cation exchange resin and a uniform particle size strongly basic porous anion exchange resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Takeshi Izumi, Masahiro Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20060225614
    Abstract: A dispersion of tin-doped indium oxide fine particles has tin-doped indium oxide fine particles, a plasticizer for an interlayer film, an organic solvent containing alcohols as a main component, and a dispersion stabilizer, wherein under measuring conditions of a concentration of tin-doped indium oxide fine particles of 0.7% by weight and an optical path length of a glass cell of 1 mm, a visible light transmittance is 80% or more, a solar radiation transmittance at a wavelength within a range from 300 nm to 2100 nm is ¾ or less of the visible light transmittance, a haze value is 1.0% or less, and a reflection yellow index is ?20 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2004
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Masahiro Hagiwara, Takeshi Nakagawa, Juichi Fukatani, Tadahiko Yoshioka, Bungo Hatta
  • Patent number: 6456683
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for deionizing water are disclosed. A condensate in the secondary cooling water system in a PWR nuclear power plant is passed through a mixture of an anion exchange resin and a cation exchange resin having a crosslinking degree of about 12 to 16%. The cation exchange resin has an improved, ion exchange capacity. thereby decreasing the frequency of changing the condensate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Izumi, Masahiro Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 5672427
    Abstract: A zinc oxide powder having high dispersibility, which contains one or more metal elements selected from the group consisting of aluminum, silicon, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, gallium, germanium, zirconium, indium, tin and hafnium in an amount of from 0.1 to 25 atm. % relative to the total amount of metal elements including zinc. The powder has an average primary particle size of up to 1 .mu.m and a relative transmissivity of at least 0.80. The improved properties are obtained by improving the surface of the powder by immersing the powder in one or more organic liquids selected from the group consisting of alcohols, ketones, amines and esters, and then drying the particles. When containing one or more of aluminum, gallium, germanium, indium and tin, the zinc oxide powder of the invention displays high electric conductivity and is therefore applicable as a conductive pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hagiwara, Akira Nishihara
  • Patent number: 5431824
    Abstract: The improved organic polymeric adsorbent is used to adsorb and remove suspended impurities present in trace amounts in the water being treated in an apparatus for producing ultrapure water for use in the semiconductor industry or in a condensate purifier in steam power generating facilities and it is composed of a particulate or powdered cation exchange resin and/or anion exchange resin. The improvement is that this adsorbent has such a surface layer structure and morphology that granules are seen to bind with one another when examined under a scanning electron microscope in a field of view ranging from a magnification of 50 to 200,000. The adsorbent may be used as the constituent of a packing layer and/or a filter layer to make a material for removing suspended impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kawazu, Masahiro Hagiwara, Takeshi Izumi
  • Patent number: 5387348
    Abstract: A method of mixed-bed filtration and demineralization for removing suspended impurities from the primary cooling water in a power plant by means of a demineralizer having a mixed bed formed of a particulate cation and anion exchange resin that have such a surface layer structure that granules are seen to bind with one another under microscopic examination, being able to be operated in a safe and yet economical manner by virtue of established conditions for operating processes, such as regeneration of the demineralizer by backwashing and by passage of chemicals and also, replacement of the demineralizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hagiwara, Hideo Kawazu, Takeshi Izumi
  • Patent number: 5308876
    Abstract: The improved organic polymeric adsorbent is used to adsorb and remove suspended impurities present in trace amounts in the water being treated in an apparatus for producing ultrapure water for use in the semiconductor industry or in a condensate purifier in steam power generating facilities and it is composed of a particulate or powdered cation exchange resin and/or anion exchange resin. The improvement is that this adsorbent has such a surface layer structure and morphology that granules are seen to bind with one another when examined under a scanning electron microscope in a field of view ranging from a magnification of 50 to 200,000. The adsorbent may be used as the constituent of a packing layer and/or a filter layer to make a material for removing suspended impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Kawazu, Masahiro Hagiwara, Takeshi Izumi
  • Patent number: 4891138
    Abstract: A method for separating and transferring an ion-exchange resin having the lower specific gravity from an ion-exchange resin having the higher specific gravity in an ion-exchange resin separating tank that is indispensable to a pure or ultrapure water producing plant and which is packed with a mixed bed of ion-exchange resins having different specific gravities is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Kanroku Chonan, Kazuyuki Koyama, Masahiro Hagiwara