Patents by Inventor Masayuki Inui
Masayuki Inui 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: 20220396492Abstract: A carbon dioxide fixation method includes a step of preparing a calcium-containing substance containing calcium, a step of preparing a calcium extraction substance for extracting calcium ions from the calcium-containing substance by a reaction with the calcium-containing substance to produce a calcium-containing intermediate, a step of producing a gel including the calcium-containing intermediate, by mixing the calcium-containing substance and the calcium extraction substance, a step of supplying a basic substance and carbon dioxide to the gel including the calcium-containing intermediate to precipitate calcium carbonate which is slightly soluble, and a step of removing the precipitated calcium carbonate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventor: Masayuki Inui
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Patent number: 11459574Abstract: Provided is a method for improving productivity in producing an organic compound in a bacterium that originally does not have an inherent ED pathway. In one aspect, provided is a transformant of a coryneform bacterium that is obtained by introducing the Entner-Doudoroff pathway into the coryneform bacterium as a host. In another aspect, provided is a transformant of a coryneform bacterium that is obtained by introducing, into a coryneform bacterium as a host a gene in which an enzyme having glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity is encoded, a gene in which an enzyme having 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase activity is encoded, and a gene in which an enzyme having 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate aldolase activity is encoded.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTHInventors: Masayuki Inui, Masako Suda, Naoto Kato, Satoshi Hasegawa, Takahisa Kogure, Toru Jojima
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Patent number: 11439942Abstract: A gas purification apparatus includes: a housing to which a gas is introduced; a filter portion for removing an impure substance in the gas from the gas, the filter portion being disposed inside the housing; and a gas purification agent for removing a removal target substance in the gas from the gas, the gas purification agent being disposed, inside the housing, on the filter portion or in a space at a downstream side of the filter portion with respect to a flow of the gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Inui, Makoto Susaki, Akihito Otani
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Patent number: 11359217Abstract: Provided is a transformant of a microorganism that has improved catechol productivity.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTHInventors: Masayuki Inui, Kazumi Hiraga, Masako Suda, Takeshi Kubota
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Publication number: 20220025412Abstract: Provided is a microorganism that is able to produce 2-phenylethanol at a high concentration, and a method of efficiently producing 2-phenylethanol by using a saccharide as a raw material. Provided is a coryneform bacterium transformant in which a shikimate pathway is activated, and further, a gene that encodes an enzyme having phenylpyruvate decarboxylase activity is introduced in such a manner that the gene can be expressed. Also provided is a 2-phenylethanol producing method that includes causing the coryneform bacterium transformant according to the present disclosure to react in water containing a saccharide.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicants: Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Inui, Kazumi Hiraga, Masako Suda, Masayoshi Hashizume, Junya Ishida
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Patent number: 11192061Abstract: A dehydration device removes moisture from a process gas compressed by a compressor, and includes a contactor that causes a dehydration solvent to absorb the moisture, a still column that separates the moisture from the dehydration solvent, a carrying line that carries the dehydration solvent from the contactor to the still column, a dehydration solvent conveying pump, a bypass line that couples the carrying lines upstream and downstream of the dehydration solvent conveying pump, a first on-off valve disposed in the bypass line, and a control device. In a case where the pressure detected by a pressure sensor is lower than a first predetermined pressure, the control device closes the first on-off valve and causes the conveying pump to operate, whereas in a case where the pressure detected by the pressure sensor is equal to or higher than the first predetermined pressure, the control device opens the first on-off valve and causes the conveying pump to stop.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Miyamoto, Masayuki Inui, Takahito Yonekawa
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Patent number: 11135543Abstract: A reduction device, an acid gas recovery device, a recovery device collector, and a first removed substance returning line are provided. The reduction device is configured to perform a reduction process to turn iron oxide to reduced iron by adding a reducing agent. The acid gas recovery device is configured to recover CO2 being acid gas with CO2 absorbing liquid being acid gas absorbing liquid from exhaust gas containing at least powder-shaped iron-based solid substances and the acid gas, which are discharged from the reduction device. The recovery device collector is configured to collect the iron-based solid substance contained in the absorbing liquid with a filter. The iron-based solid substances collected by the recovery device collector are removed, and removed substances containing the removed iron-based solid substances are returned to the reduction device side through the first removed substance returning line.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Hirata, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Kamijo, Masayuki Inui, Shimpei Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20210245084Abstract: A gas purification apparatus includes: a housing to which a gas is introduced; a filter portion for removing an impure substance in the gas from the gas, the filter portion being disposed inside the housing; and a gas purification agent for removing a removal target substance in the gas from the gas, the gas purification agent being disposed, inside the housing, on the filter potion or in a space at a downstream side of the filter portion with respect to a flow of the gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Inui, Makoto Susaki, Akihito Otani
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Publication number: 20210222211Abstract: Provided is a transformant of a microorganism that has improved catechol productivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2019Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTHInventors: Masayuki INUI, Kazumi HIRAGA, Masako SUDA, Takeshi KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20210154617Abstract: A dehydration device removes moisture from a process gas compressed by a compressor, and includes a contactor that causes a dehydration solvent to absorb the moisture, a still column that separates the moisture from the dehydration solvent, a carrying line that carries the dehydration solvent from the contactor to the still column, a dehydration solvent conveying pump, a bypass line that couples the carrying lines upstream and downstream of the dehydration solvent conveying pump, a first on-off valve disposed in the bypass line, and a control device. In a case where the pressure detected by a pressure sensor is lower than a first predetermined pressure, the control device closes the first on-off valve and causes the conveying pump to operate, whereas in a case where the pressure detected by the pressure sensor is equal to or higher than the first predetermined pressure, the control device opens the first on-off valve and causes the conveying pump to stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Miyamoto, Masayuki Inui, Takahito Yonekawa
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Patent number: 10988743Abstract: Provided is a microorganism that is capable of efficiently producing para-aminobenzoic acid (4-ABA) or a salt thereof, using saccharides as raw materials, and a method for efficiently producing 4-ABA or a salt thereof by using this microorganism. A transformant obtained by introducing, into a coryneform bacterium, a gene that encodes 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate lyase, a gene that encodes a para-aminobenzoate synthase component I, and a gene that encodes a para-aminobenzoate synthase component II, is capable of efficiently producing 4-ABA or a salt thereof from saccharides.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignees: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH, SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Inui, Kazumi Hiraga, Masako Suda, Takeshi Kubota
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Patent number: 10961526Abstract: Provided is a microorganism that is able to efficiently produce protocatechuic acid or a salt thereof by using a saccharide as a raw material, and a method of efficiently producing protocatechuic acid or a salt thereof by using the microorganism. Provided is a transformant having protocatechuic acid producing ability, subjected to modifications of enhancement of 3-dehydroshikimate dehydratase activity; enhancement of chorismate pyruvate lyase activity; and enhancement of 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase activity. Also provided is a method of producing protocatechuic acid or a salt thereof, including the step of culturing the transformant in a reaction solution containing a saccharide so as to cause the transformant to produce protocatechuic acid or a salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH, SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Inui, Kazumi Hiraga, Masako Suda, Takahisa Kogure
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Publication number: 20210054386Abstract: Provided is a method for improving productivity in producing an organic compound in a bacterium that originally does not have an inherent ED pathway. In one aspect, provided is a transformant of a coryneform bacterium that is obtained by introducing the Entner-Doudoroff pathway into the coryneform bacterium as a host. In another aspect, provided is a transformant of a coryneform bacterium that is obtained by introducing, into a coryneform bacterium as a host a gene in which an enzyme having glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity is encoded, a gene in which an enzyme having 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase activity is encoded, and a gene in which an enzyme having 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate aldolase activity is encoded.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTHInventors: Masayuki INUI, Masako SUDA, Naoto KATO, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Takahisa KOGURE, Toru JOJIMA
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Publication number: 20200368682Abstract: An air pollution control unit is configured to bring particle-containing gas and washing liquid into contact with each other to collect particles in the particle-containing gas. The air pollution control unit includes a gas washing column having a gas cleaning section in which the particle-containing gas and the washing liquid are brought into co-current contact with each other, a gas cooling column disposed downstream of the gas washing column along the gas flow and having a gas cooling section in which the particle-containing gas that has been cleaned (cleaned gas) and cooling liquid are brought into countercurrent contact with each other, and a gas communication path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya HIRATA, Hiroshi TANAKA, Masayuki INUI, Shinya KISHIMOTO
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Patent number: 10835862Abstract: SOx removal equipment for reducing sulfur oxides from flue gas from a boiler, a cooler which is provided on a downstream side of the SOx removal equipment for reducing the sulfur oxides that remain in the flue gas and for decreasing a gas temperature, CO2 recovery equipment which includes a CO2 absorber, and an absorption liquid regenerator, and mist generation material reduction equipment for reducing a mist generation material which is a generation source of mist that is generated in the CO2 absorber of the CO2 recovery equipment before introducing the flue gas to the CO2 recovery equipment are included.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuto Nagayasu, Takashi Kamijo, Masayuki Inui, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Hiromitsu Nagayasu, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takuya Hirata, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi, Susumu Okino, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Seiji Yoshihara
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Patent number: 10738296Abstract: The mutant chorismate-pyruvate lyase (A) or (B) as described below is capable of producing 4-hydroxybenzoic acid or a salt thereof with sufficient practical efficiency. (A) A mutant chorismate-pyruvate lyase obtained by replacing the valine at position 80 in a chorismate-pyruvate lyase (ubiC) from Pantoea ananatis consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 with one or more other amino acids. (B) A mutant chorismate-pyruvate lyase obtained by replacing an amino acid in another chorismate-pyruvate lyase, the amino acid being at a position enzymologically homologous with that of the above valine, with one or mere other amino acids.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: GREEN CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Inui, Kazumi Hiraga, Masako Suda, Ryoma Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10456734Abstract: Included are a CO2 absorber for removing CO2 from a CO2-containing flue gas with a CO2 absorbent, an absorbent regenerator for regenerating the absorbent, a rich solution supply line for supplying the rich solution from the absorber to a rich solution supply portion of the regenerator, a rich/lean solution heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the rich solution and the lean solution, a first rich solution dividing line for dividing the rich solution at a first dividing portion in the rich solution supply line and supplying the divided rich solution at a first supply position on a side wall of the regenerator, a first rich solution heat exchanger for preheating the divided rich solution, and a first flow rate control device for controlling a flow rate of the divided rich solution such that the rich solution is preheated to a predetermined temperature in the first rich solution heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Tsujiuchi, Takashi Kamijo, Masayuki Inui, Osamu Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20190194629Abstract: Provided is a microorganism that is capable of efficiently producing para-aminobenzoic acid (4-ABA) or a salt thereof, using saccharides as raw materials, and a method for efficiently producing 4-ABA or a salt thereof by using this microorganism. A transformant obtained by introducing, into a coryneform bacterium, a gene that encodes 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate lyase, a gene that encodes a para-aminobenzoate synthase component I, and a gene that encodes a para-aminobenzoate synthase component II, is capable of efficiently producing 4-ABA or a salt thereof from saccharides.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicants: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH, SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki INUI, Kazumi HIRAGA, Masako SUDA, Takeshi KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20190160421Abstract: A reduction device, an acid gas recovery device, a recovery device collector, and a first removed substance returning line are provided. The reduction device is configured to perform a reduction process to turn iron oxide to reduced iron by adding a reducing agent. The acid gas recovery device is configured to recover CO2 being acid gas with CO2 absorbing liquid being acid gas absorbing liquid from exhaust gas containing at least powder-shaped iron-based solid substances and the acid gas, which are discharged from the reduction device. The recovery device collector is configured to collect the iron-based solid substance contained in the absorbing liquid with a filter. The iron-based solid substances collected by the recovery device collector are removed, and removed substances containing the removed iron-based solid substances are returned to the reduction device side through the first removed substance returning line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Hirata, Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Kamijo, Masayuki Inui, Shimpei Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20190136222Abstract: The mutant chorismate-pyruvate lyase (A) or (B) as described below is capable of producing 4-hydroxybenzoic acid or a salt thereof with sufficient practical efficiency. (A) A mutant chorismate-pyruvate lyase obtained by replacing the valine at position 80 in a chorismate-pyruvate lyase (ubiC) from Pantoea ananatis consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 with one or more other amino acids. (B) A mutant chorismate-pyruvate lyase obtained by replacing an amino acid in another chorismate-pyruvate lyase, the amino acid being at a position enzymologically homologous with that of the above valine, with one or mere other amino acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: GREEN CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki INUI, Kazumi HIRAGA, Masako SUDA, Ryoma HASHIMOTO