Patents by Inventor Munetaka Myochin

Munetaka Myochin 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: 8080162
    Abstract: Provided is a method that can remove fission products in a spent electrolyte produced in a dry reprocessing process by an easy operation and can vitrify the fission products easily, the fission products including not only the fission products that generate precipitate but also the fission products that generate no precipitate. A spent electrolyte produced in a dry reprocessing process is subjected to a phosphate conversion processing to obtain a processing target substance; the processing target substance is passed through a separating material 10 including an iron phosphate glass at a temperature of not more than a softening point of the iron phosphate glass in order to remove insoluble fission products included in the processing target substance by filtration with the separating material and to sorb fission products in solution to the separating material for separation; and the iron phosphate glass holding the fission products is used as a waste vitrification material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Japan Atomic Energy Agency
    Inventors: Ippei Amamoto, Hirohide Kofuji, Mineo Fukushima, Munetaka Myochin
  • Publication number: 20100294720
    Abstract: Provided is a method that can remove fission products in a spent electrolyte produced in a dry reprocessing process by an easy operation and can vitrify the fission products easily, the fission products including not only the fission products that generate precipitate but also the fission products that generate no precipitate. A spent electrolyte produced in a dry reprocessing process is subjected to a phosphate conversion processing to obtain a processing target substance; the processing target substance is passed through a separating material 10 including an iron phosphate glass at a temperature of not more than a softening point of the iron phosphate glass in order to remove insoluble fission products included in the processing target substance by filtration with the separating material and to sorb fission products in solution to the separating material for separation; and the iron phosphate glass holding the fission products is used as a waste vitrification material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Ippei Amamoto, Hirohide Kofuji, Mineo Fukushima, Munetaka Myochin
  • Patent number: 5650051
    Abstract: Gamma rays are applied to a suspension which includes water and a catalyst having an element of platinum group metal carried on a semiconductor, thereby decomposing the water so as to produce hydrogen. The energy of gamma rays emitted from a nuclear reactor can be utilized to achieve a high-efficient generation of hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Doryokuro Kakunenryo Kaihatsu Jigyodan
    Inventors: Yukio Wada, Munetaka Myochin, Kouichi Kawaguchi, Kazunari Domen