Patents by Inventor Masataka Kasai

Masataka Kasai 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: 6251258
    Abstract: In an electrolytic bath, an extraction part extracts heavy metal in the internal organs of scallops into an acid solution. A direct current voltage is applied between electrodes, which are provided in the acid solution, to deposit the heavy metal in the acid solution on the electrodes. If the deposit efficiency deteriorates, the polarity applied between the electrodes is reversed from the polarity in the deposition of the heavy metal in a neutral or alkali electrolytic solution. Consequently, the heavy metal is removed from the electrodes. Since arsenic is dissolved in the acid solution, an alkali liquid and a flocculant are added to the acid solution to sediment arsenic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kojima, Toshiyuki Hishinuma, Hiroyuki Ichikawa, Hiroshi Asakura, Masataka Kasai
  • 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: 5997736
    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: September 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    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: 5876603
    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: July 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    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: 5849180
    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: March 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    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: 4163266
    Abstract: Guiding drums for a magnetic tape scanning assembly for use in a video tape recorder and playback apparatus are made of a specific aluminum-silicon alloy consisting essentially of 8 to 15% by weight of silicon, 1 to 4% by weight of copper, 0.05 to 0.6% by weight of magnesium, and the balance being aluminum. A mean grain size of silicon crystal in eutectic structure is controlled to be 5 .mu.m or less. The drums are provided with a diagonal or helical guiding path on the peripheries thereof in which there are formed on the guiding path generally continuous, fine machining lines having a roughness (H max) of 1 to 6 .mu.m, preferably 2 to 5 .mu.m, in a direction parallel with sliding travel of a magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1979
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Tamamura, Naotatsu Asahi, Makoto Nakayama, Masataka Kasai, Akira Saito, Toshimichi Terada