Patents by Inventor Moriyoshi Kudo

Moriyoshi Kudo 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).

  • Method of and an apparatus for separating a liquid mixture
    Patent number: 5494556
    Abstract: A method of separating a liquid mixture wherein the liquid mixture is heated; the heated liquid mixture is supplied to a pervaporation membrane module to separate a permeable component of the liquid; a portion of non-permeated liquid is circulated through a circulation pipe into a liquid mixture feeding pipe before a heater, and the remaining portion of the non-permeated liquid is extracted to the outside of the system, and wherein the temperature of the liquid in the liquid mixture feeding pipe in which the non-permeated liquid has been mixed with the liquid mixture or in the circulation pipe for the non-permeated liquid, is measured, and when the measured temperature is out of a predetermined range, new supply of the liquid mixture and/or extraction of the non-permeated liquid is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Mitsubishi Kasei Engineering Company
    Inventors: Masaaki Mita, Masumi Hino, Moriyoshi Kudo