Patents by Inventor Muneo Ayabe

Muneo Ayabe 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: 9090979
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing perchlorate, which comprises: an electrolytic step (S1) wherein an electrolysis vessel (2), in which a positive electrode side (4A) on which a positive electrode (4) is arranged and a negative electrode side (5A) on which a negative electrode (5) is arranged are divided by a cation-exchange membrane (6), is used and an aqueous solution of sodium chlorate is electrolytically oxidized on the positive electrode side (4A) of the electrolysis vessel (2); a neutralization reaction step (S2) wherein a substance an aqueous solution of which shows alkalinity is added to the aqueous perchloric acid solution that has been produced by the electrolytic oxidation on the positive electrode side, so that perchlorate is synthesized by a neutralization reaction; and a crystallization process wherein the perchlorate synthesized by the neutralization reaction is obtained as crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Okuyama, Kumiko Yoshihisa, Yasunori Hamano, Takahiro Matsuo, Nobuhiko Kubota, Kazuo Uematsu, Muneo Ayabe
  • Publication number: 20120020871
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a perchlorate including an electrolysis process (S1) in which, using an electrolysis tank (2) in which an anode section (4A) provided with an anode (4) and a cathode section (5A) provided a cathode (5) are divided by a cation exchange membrane (6), an aqueous solution of sodium chlorate is electrolytically oxidized in the anode section, a neutralization reaction process (S2) in which a substance that becomes alkaline when dissolved in water is added to the aqueous solution of perchloric acid in the anode section, which has been generated by the electrolytic oxidation, so as to synthesize a perchlorate by a neutralization reaction, and a crystallization method in which the perchlorate synthesized by the neutralization reaction process is formed into crystals, in which the crystallization method includes a crystallization method composed of three processes of an evaporation and crystallization process (S3) or an evaporation and concentration process (S21), a co
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Junichi Okuyama, Kumiko Yoshihisa, Yasunori Hamano, Takahiro Matsuo, Nobuhiko Kubota, Kazuo Uematsu, Muneo Ayabe
  • Patent number: 5520887
    Abstract: The ozone generating and condensing system includes an oxygen generator for isolating oxygen from an air, an ozonizer provided downstream of the oxygen generator for generating ozone from the oxygen, two parallel-connected ozone absorption towers provided downstream of the ozonizer, an ozone absorption switching mechanism for allowing the ozone to flow into one of the absorption towers from the ozonizer and for recirculating to the ozonizer residual oxygen discharged from the one of the ozone absorption towers after an ozone absorption cycle therein, and an ozone release switching mechanism for introducing the nitrogen generated by the oxygen generator as a carrier gas to the one of the absorption towers after completion of ozone absorption cycle to release the absorbed ozone from the one of the ozone absorption towers and further for causing the released ozone to flow into a reactor tower located downstream of the absorption towers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Shimizu, Katsuji Yamamoto, Muneo Ayabe