Patents by Inventor Shinji Murai

Shinji Murai 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).

  • Publication number: 20240307817
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide an acid gas absorbent, a method for removing an acid gas, and an acid gas removal apparatus. The acid gas absorbent comprises (A) a specific diamine compound, (B) amine compound and (C) a solvent, wherein a B/A ratio of a content rate of the component (B) to a content rate of the component (A) is 2.5 to 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitomi SAITO, Akiko SUZUKI, Yoshihiko NAKANO, Reiko YOSHIMURA, Asato KONDO, Shinji MURAI, Noriko TAKADA
  • Patent number: 12070719
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a gas processing equipment includes an oxygen remover 2 that removes oxygen contained in exhaust gas G, and a gas processing device 3 that processes pretreated exhaust gas G (P), from which the oxygen has been removed by the oxygen remover 2, with a carbon dioxide absorbent solvent S as a treatment agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daigo Muraoka, Koshito Fujita, Shinji Murai, Hayato Morigaki, Osamu Shibasaki, Yasuhiro Kato, Satoshi Saito, Takehiko Muramatsu, Ryosuke Shibata, Yusuke Handa
  • Patent number: 12018763
    Abstract: A relief valve includes: a housing having a hollow cylindrical valve chamber and having a first communication port opening on one end side of the valve chamber; a first valve element for opening and closing the first communication port; a first spring for biasing the first valve element in the closing direction; and a retainer having a spring seat for supporting the first spring. A set load of the first spring is adjusted based on the press-fit amount of the retainer with respect to the housing. A press-fit piece member including a plurality of press-fit pieces is formed in the retainer, such that the press-fit pieces of the press-fit member are arranged to be spaced away from each other in the circumferential direction of the retainer and elastically abut the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Murai, Yasuhiro Tsuzuki
  • Patent number: 11865492
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an acid gas removing apparatus includes an absorber configured to bring a first gas including an acid gas and a lean solution into contact to discharge a rich solution that is the lean solution having absorbed the acid gas, a regenerator configured to separate the acid gas from the rich solution discharged by the absorber to discharge the lean solution that is the rich solution separated from the acid gas, and a measuring instrument configured to measure a temperature of the rich or lean solution in the regenerator. Furthermore, an acid gas removal control apparatus that controls the acid gas removing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive the measured temperature, and a controller configured to control resupply of a resupplied solution to the rich or lean solution or removal of an acid component from the rich or lean solution, based on the received temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kato, Mitsuru Udatsu, Daigo Muraoka, Hayato Morigaki, Shinji Murai, Koshito Fujita
  • Publication number: 20230330626
    Abstract: A porous metal organic framework having gas adsorption selectivity and excellent water resistance, an adsorbent consisting of the porous metal organic framework, and a method for separating carbon dioxide using the same are provided, which are: a porous metal organic framework, which is characterized by comprising a metal oxalate, a cycloazocarbyl compound, and a bidentate organic ligand; an adsorbent consisting of the porous metal organic framework; and a method for separating carbon dioxide using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji MURAI, Yasuhiro KATO, Hayato MORIGAKI, Koshito FUJITA, Satoshi SAITO
  • Patent number: 11635047
    Abstract: A flow control valve may include a housing including a fluid-flow channel, a valve seat including a valve hole and positioned in the fluid-flow channel, an electric motor disposed in the housing, and a valve body configured to be axially moved toward and away from the valve seat by the electric motor via a feed screw mechanism. The valve body includes a straight projecting portion. The projecting portion is configured to be positioned in the valve hole in an initial valve body lifting range in which a lift distance of the valve body relative to the valve seat is not greater than a predetermined lift distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koma Ito, Shinji Murai
  • Publication number: 20230104687
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an amine compound having a large amount of an acid gas to be absorbed and strong oxidation resistance, an absorbent containing the amine compound, a method for removing an acid gas, and an acid gas removal apparatus. The acid gas absorbent includes an amine compound of Formula (1a) or (2b): wherein: R1 to R3 are each independently a hydrogen alkyl group, R2's are each independently an alkyl group, and at least two of R2's contained in one-CR23 are not hydrogen, a's are each independently 0 or 1, m is a number of 1 to 3; n's are each independently a number of 1 to 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko NAKANO, Akiko SUZUKI, Reiko YOSHIMURA, Asato KONDO, Shinji MURAI, Yusuke HANDA
  • Publication number: 20230096186
    Abstract: A relief valve includes: a housing having a hollow cylindrical valve chamber and having a first communication port opening on one end side of the valve chamber; a first valve element for opening and closing the first communication port; a first spring for biasing the first valve element in the closing direction; and a retainer having a spring seat for supporting the first spring. A set load of the first spring is adjusted based on the press-fit amount of the retainer with respect to the housing. A press-fit piece member including a plurality of press-fit pieces is formed in the retainer, such that the press-fit pieces of the press-fit member are arranged to be spaced away from each other in the circumferential direction of the retainer and elastically abut the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji MURAI, Yasuhiro TSUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230003180
    Abstract: A flow control valve may include a housing including a fluid-flow channel, a valve seat including a valve hole and positioned in the fluid-flow channel, an electric motor disposed in the housing, and a valve body configured to be axially moved toward and away from the valve seat by the electric motor via a feed screw mechanism. The valve body includes a straight projecting portion. The projecting portion is configured to be positioned in the valve hole in an initial valve body lifting range in which a lift distance of the valve body relative to the valve seat is not greater than a predetermined lift distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koma ITO, Shinji MURAI
  • Patent number: 11499649
    Abstract: A flow control valve includes a housing having a valve chamber, an inlet port, an outlet port, and a valve seat. In addition, the flow control valve includes a valve body disposed in the valve chamber, an actuator having an output rotational shaft, a feed screw mechanism to convert forward and reverse rotational motion of the output rotational shaft to axial reciprocating motion of the valve body, a backlash preventive spring positioned between the housing and the valve body, and a spring supporting device formed on the housing and having a spring seating surface. The spring seating surface is spaced from the valve seat in an opening direction of the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shinji Murai
  • Publication number: 20220314161
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a gas processing equipment includes an oxygen remover 2 that removes oxygen contained in exhaust gas G, and a gas processing device 3 that processes pretreated exhaust gas G (P), from which the oxygen has been removed by the oxygen remover 2, with a carbon dioxide absorbent solvent S as a treatment agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daigo MURAOKA, Koshito FUJITA, Shinji MURAI, Hayato MORIGAKI, Osamu SHIBASAKI, Yasuhiro KATO, Satoshi SAITO, Takehiko MURAMATSU, Ryosuke SHIBATA, Yusuke HANDA
  • Patent number: 11278842
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are acid gas absorbents that afford high acid gas (CO2) absorption amount per unit volume and high absorption speed and can prevent the absorbent components from diffusing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Murai, Yukishige Maezawa, Tetsuya Kaseda, Takehiko Muramatsu, Satoshi Saito, Mitsuru Udatsu, Daigo Muraoka, Masatoshi Hodotsuka
  • Publication number: 20220080347
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an acid gas removing apparatus includes an absorber configured to bring a first gas including an acid gas and a lean solution into contact to discharge a rich solution that is the lean solution having absorbed the acid gas, a regenerator configured to separate the acid gas from the rich solution discharged by the absorber to discharge the lean solution that is the rich solution separated from the acid gas, and a measuring instrument configured to measure a temperature of the rich or lean solution in the regenerator. Furthermore, an acid gas removal control apparatus that controls the acid gas removing apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive the measured temperature, and a controller configured to control resupply of a resupplied solution to the rich or lean solution or removal of an acid component from the rich or lean solution, based on the received temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KATO, Mitsuru UDATSU, Daigo MURAOKA, Hayato MORIGAKI, Shinji MURAI, Koshito FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20220080348
    Abstract: The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent having low diffusibility, an acidic gas removal method employing the acidic gas absorbent, and also an acidic gas removal apparatus employing the absorbent. The acidic gas absorbent according to the embodiment comprises: a particular tertiary amine compound, such as, an alkyl dialkanol amine or a hydroxyalkyl piperazine; a halogen-free ionic surfactant; and an aqueous solvent. The embodiments provide not only the acidic gas absorbent but also an acidic gas removal method and apparatus employing the acidic gas absorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko SUZUKI, Yoshihiko NAKANO, Reiko YOSHIMURA, Asato KONDO, Kenji SANO, Toshihiro IMADA, Shinji MURAI, Mitsuru UDATSU
  • Patent number: 11171554
    Abstract: A stepping motor includes a stator, a rotor rotatably supported by the stator, and an auxiliary magnetic member. The auxiliary magnetic member has a body, side edge parts at both circumferential ends of the body, and an opening between the side edge parts. The auxiliary magnetic member is elastically mounted around a flange of the stator. The auxiliary magnetic member includes, at one of the side edge parts, a projecting part protruding radially inward from a projected inner circumferential surface of the body across the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Makino, Shinji Murai
  • Patent number: 11135544
    Abstract: The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent, an acidic gas removal method using the absorbent, and an acidic gas removal apparatus using the absorbent. The absorbent absorbs an acidic gas in a large amount and is hardly diffused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Suzuki, Yoshihiko Nakano, Reiko Yoshimura, Toshihiro Imada, Takashi Kuboki, Kenji Sano, Shinji Murai, Mitsuru Udatsu
  • Patent number: 11123683
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide absorbent of an embodiment includes a heterocyclic amine expressed by Formula (1), and the heterocyclic amine having a pKa of any one amino group included in a heterocyclic ring in Formula (1) in a range of 7.0 or more to 8.6 or less and an organic solvent having a boiling point of 150° C. or more at 1 atm. A total mass of the heterocyclic amine and the organic solvent is 70 mass % or more to 100 mass % or less of the carbon dioxide absorbent. Each of R1 to R4 in Formula (1) is H, oxygen double-bonded with carbon of the heterocyclic ring, CH3, OH, or an alkyl chain optionally including a functional group. X1 in Formula (1) is H, CH3, CO, C(O)OC2H5, C(O)OC3H7, C(O)OCH(CH3)2, C(O)OC(CH3)3, C(O)OCH3, C(O)CH3, or C(O)C2H5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akiko Suzuki, Asato Kondo, Takashi Kuboki, Shinji Murai, Mitsuru Udatsu, Toshihiro Imada, Yoshihiko Nakano, Reiko Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11090603
    Abstract: An acidic gas absorbent contains an amine compound of formula (1) and a cyclic amino compound of formula (2) or (3): where in the formulas, each R1 is independently a straight-chain hydroxyalkyl having a hydroxy at the terminal, R2 is a branched-chain secondary alkyl group, R3 and R4 are hydrogen, hydroxy, a hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl, provided that at least one of R3 and R4s is a hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl, each p is independently an integer of 2 to 4, each R5 is independently hydrogen, hydroxy, or a hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl, provided that at least one of R5s is a hydroxyalkyl or aminoalkyl, and q is an integer of 3 to 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Murai, Yasuhiro Kato, Akiko Suzuki, Mitsuru Udatsu
  • Patent number: 11047495
    Abstract: A fluid control valve includes a valve unit, a valve casing, and a secondary molded member. The valve casing houses the valve unit therein and includes a first connection pipe part and a second connection pipe part. The first connection pipe part has a hollow pipe shape with a first engagement part. The second connection pipe part has a hollow pipe shape with a second engagement part. The first connection pipe part is connected to the second connection pipe part. The secondary molded member is made of a resin material and covers the first engagement part and the second engagement part to prevent the first connection pipe part from being detached from the second connection pipe part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Makino, Shinji Murai, Yasuhiro Tsuzuki, Naoya Sugiyama, Takeshi Kudo
  • Patent number: 10934976
    Abstract: An evaporated fuel treatment device is provided with an electric-operated valve, a positive-pressure relief valve mechanism and a negative-pressure relief valve mechanism. The electric-operated valve has a valve body for opening/closing a vapor passage allowing a fuel tank and a canister, and adjusts the flow rate by electrical control. The positive-pressure relief valve mechanism opens when the pressure at the fuel tank side has a value greater than or equal to a predetermined positive pressure value. The negative-pressure relief valve mechanism opens when the pressure at the fuel tank side has a value less than or equal to a predetermined negative pressure value. The electric-operated valve is configured such that the valve body is moved in the valve opening direction by the pressure at the fuel tank side that is higher, by a predetermined value, than the valve opening pressure for the positive-pressure relief valve mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Murai