Patents by Inventor Saburo Makuro

Saburo Makuro 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: 7503946
    Abstract: The system is a self-oxidation internal heating steam reforming system for conducting self-oxidation of a raw material gas under the presence of oxygen and conducting steam reforming to generate a hydrogen-rich reformed gas. The system includes a steam generator including a combustion section for combusting an air-fuel mixture obtained by mixing a combustion air with a fuel, thereby heating water using a combustion gas generated in the combustion section to generate hydrogen; a first sucking-mixer for sucking the raw material gas into a steam stream coming from the steam generator to obtain a raw material-steam mixture; and a reformer for oxidizing the raw material gas in the raw material-steam mixture by an oxygen-containing gas supplied from outside, thereby conducting steam reforming of the raw material gas using the reaction heat of the oxidation to generate a hydrogen-rich reformed gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignees: Nippon Chemical Plant Consultant Co., Ltd., T. Rad Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuwabara, Yoshio Tomizawa, Yasushi Yoshino, Jun Ono, Shigeki Kobayashi, Saburo Makuro