Patents by Inventor Misao Igarashi

Misao Igarashi 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: 5283959
    Abstract: A system of drying moist sludge includes a drier as a main component. The drier is composed of a lower gas fluidizing section and an upper high speed fluidizing section. Moist sludge to be be dried is introduced into a mixer in which each particle is coated with the moist sludge, and the coated particles are supplied to the gas fluidizing section. Fine particles flown away from the gas fluidizing section are fluidized in the high speed fluidizing section while they are dried by heating elements. After completion of the drying operation, dried sludge particles are collected in a dust collector. Subsequently, fine dried sludge particles are conducted to a bag type dust collecting unit from which they are discharged to a sludge hopper. A part of the coarse dried sludge particles collected in the dust collector is supplied to the gas fluidizing section, a part of the same is supplied to the mixer to be mixed with moist sludge, and the balance is delivered to the sludge hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Tsukishima Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Nagayoshi, Hajime Nakajima, Misao Igarashi
  • Patent number: 5081937
    Abstract: An improved system for treating waste material in a molten state wherein the waste material in the form of finely pulverized combustible waste material including incombustible material, e.g., pulverized coal, dried sludge derived from sewerage or the like is burnt in a primary combustion furnace and then burnt in a secondary combustion furnace, the incombustible material is molten to form a flow of molten slag and the resultant molten slag is taken to the outside of the system is disclosed. Floatable dust in the combustion waste gas is collected and agglomerated in the atmosphere of a swirling flow having a high temperature enough to keep the incombustible material in a molten state, whereby a flow of molten slag is produced and then it is cooled so as to allow it to be discharged to the outside of the system. The molten slag may flow back by its own gravity weight to the combustion furnace against a counterflow of the waste gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Chiba City & Tsukishima Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Ishida, Yoshikazu Ueda, Teruji Kubota, Misao Igarashi, Norichika Tanaka, Yasuhiko Kamijo
  • Patent number: 5020455
    Abstract: An improved system for treating waste material in a molten state wherein the waste material in the form of finely pulverized combustible waste material including incombustible material, e.g., pulverized coal, dried sludge derived from sewerage or the like is burnt in a primary combustion furnace and then burnt in a secondary combustion furnace, the incombustible material is molten to form a flow of molten slag and the resultant molten slag is taken to the outside of the system is disclosed. Floatable dust in the combustion waste gas is collected and agglomerated in the atmosphere of a swirling flow having a high temperature enough to keep the incombustible material in a molten state, whereby a flow of molten slag is produced and then it is cooled so as to allow it to be discharged to the outside of the system. The molten slag may flow back by its own gravity weight to the combustion furnace against a counterflow of the waste gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Chiba City & Tsukishima Kikai Kubushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ishida Takashi, Yoshikazu Ueda, Teruji Kubota, Misao Igarashi, Norichika Tanaka, Yasuhiko Kamijo