Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Okamura

Nobuhiro Okamura 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: 6660240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas processing agent for removing carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and water vapor in a gas at the same time, which can maintain a high oxidation activity and have a long life time, a manufacturing method therefor and a gas purification method. More specifically, the present invention relates to a gas processing agent made of a catalyst made of an inorganic porous material layer containing at least one selected from a group consisting of platinum, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium, or oxides thereof and an adsorbent, and a manufacturing method therefor, a gas purifier, a gas purification method and a gas purification apparatus using the gas processing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignees: N.E. Chemcat Corporaiton, Nippon Sanso Corporation
    Inventors: Sakurai Toshihiko, Yusuke Nakaya, Masato Kawai, Morimitsu Nakamura, Nobuhiro Okamura
  • Patent number: 6048509
    Abstract: A method is provided for removing water, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide out of a gas, such as air, by passing the gas through a packed column so that the gas sequentially contacts a catalyst consisting of platinum or palladium and at least one member selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper, chromium, tin, lead and cerium wherein the catalyst is supported on alumina containing substantially no pores having pore diameters of 110 Angstroms or less under conditions which oxidize the carbon monoxide in the gas into carbon dioxide; an adsorbent selected from the group consisting of silica gel, activated alumina, zeolite and combinations thereof under conditions in which water is adsorbed and removed from the gas and an adsorbent selected from the group consisting of calcium ion exchanged A zeolite; calcium ion exchanged X zeolite; sodium ion exchanged X zeolite and mixtures thereof under conditions which carbon dioxide is adsorbed and removed from the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Nippon Sanso Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kawai, Morimitsu Nakamura, Nobuhiro Okamura