Patents by Inventor Shunichi Hatamoto

Shunichi Hatamoto 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: 11215592
    Abstract: There is provided a separation method in which a target component in a solution can be separated simply but safely and efficiently without contamination from the environment. This method includes: providing a solution containing a target component, and a reaction reagent; while continuously feeding the solution and the reaction reagent to a flow path, intermittently injecting bubbles into the flow path to produce a gas-liquid slug flow in which a mixed liquid containing the solution and the reaction reagent is segmented into a plurality of droplets by the bubbles; continuing the feed of the gas-liquid slug flow in the flow path, thereby facilitating the mixing of the solution and the reaction reagent, and the gasification of the target component by the mixing, in each droplet, and the movement of a target component-derived gas produced by the gasification to the bubbles; and recovering the target component-derived gas with an absorbing liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD., BL TEC K.K.
    Inventors: Makoto Nagaoka, Fumihiro Yoshinaga, Atsumi Koyanagi, Shunichi Hatamoto, Yozo Ishihara, Makiko Kumagai, Takashi Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20210318278
    Abstract: There is provided a separation method in which a target component in a solution can be separated simply but safely and efficiently without contamination from the environment. This method includes: providing a solution containing a target component, and a reaction reagent; while continuously feeding the solution and the reaction reagent to a flow path, intermittently injecting bubbles into the flow path to produce a gas-liquid slug flow in which a mixed liquid containing the solution and the reaction reagent is segmented into a plurality of droplets by the bubbles; continuing the feed of the gas-liquid slug flow in the flow path, thereby facilitating the mixing of the solution and the reaction reagent, and the gasification of the target component by the mixing, in each droplet, and the movement of a target component-derived gas produced by the gasification to the bubbles; and recovering the target component-derived gas with an absorbing liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicants: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD., BL TEC K.K.
    Inventors: Makoto NAGAOKA, Fumihiro YOSHINAGA, Atsumi KOYANAGI, Shunichi HATAMOTO, Yozo ISHIHARA, Makiko KUMAGAI, Takashi NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 8323530
    Abstract: Provided is a phosphor for scintillator that can absorb radiation and convert it into visible light, and which has a short fluorescence decay time. The phosphor contains a lutetium sulfide-containing host material and an activator agent ion, for example, a phosphor comprising a composition represented by the general formula (Lu1-xPrx)2S3, or (Lu1-xCex)2S3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Takahashi, Motoyuki Tanaka, Shunichi Hatamoto, Hiromu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20120168678
    Abstract: Provided is a phosphor for scintillator that can absorb radiation and convert it into visible light, and which has a short fluorescence decay time. The phosphor contains a lutetium sulfide-containing host material and an activator agent ion, for example, a phosphor comprising a composition represented by the general formula (Lu1-xPrx)2S3, or (Lu1-xCex)2S3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Takahashi, Motoyuki Tanaka, Shunichi Hatamoto, Hiromu Watanabe