Patents by Inventor Tokiko Yamauchi

Tokiko Yamauchi 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: 11667551
    Abstract: Provided is a water treatment device configured to perform a deionization treatment for the water to be treated, and the water treatment device includes a pressing member, a treatment container configured to store the water to be treated, a first electrode and a second electrode accommodated in the treatment container, a separator arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a pair of collectors, which are accommodated in the treatment container, and are configured to apply a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. The pressing member is configured to press the first electrode and the second electrode in the treatment container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakayama, Seiji Noda, Tokiko Yamauchi, Nozomu Yasunaga, Kenro Mitsuda
  • Patent number: 10961135
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus includes: a first granular electrode member and a second granular electrode member stored in a water treatment unit and provided so as to be separated from each other; a power supply unit which applies voltage between the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member so that ions contained in treatment target water supplied from one side of the water treatment unit are adsorbed to the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member; and a washing water supply pump which causes washing water to flow from the other side of the water treatment unit to the one side of the water treatment unit, thereby washing the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member, wherein the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member each include a plurality of flowable granular electrode members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakayama, Tokiko Yamauchi, Nozomu Yasunaga, Seiji Noda
  • Patent number: 10941056
    Abstract: A water treatment device in which a treatment target water introduction portion is provided in an upper portion of a receptacle, and the water treatment device has a space in which conductive porous members are not disposed between the conductive porous members and the treatment target water introduction portion in the receptacle. When a backwashing fluid is introduced from a lower portion of the receptacle in a desorption, the conductive porous members flow and are agitated owing to the backwashing fluid, because of which a desorption of ions adsorbed to the conductive porous members is promoted. Grains of the agitated conductive porous members collide with other grains of the conductive porous members or with electrodes or a separator, whereby scale and a biofilm appearing on surfaces of the grains of the conductive porous members, the electrodes, or the separator can be removed, and desalination efficiency can be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tokiko Yamauchi, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Eiji Imamura, Nozomu Yasunaga
  • Publication number: 20200017379
    Abstract: Provided is a water treatment device configured to perform a deionization treatment for the water to be treated, and the water treatment device includes a pressing member, a treatment container configured to store the water to be treated, a first electrode and a second electrode accommodated in the treatment container, a separator arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a pair of collectors, which are accommodated in the treatment container, and are configured to apply a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. The pressing member is configured to press the first electrode and the second electrode in the treatment container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKAYAMA, Seiji NODA, Tokiko YAMAUCHI, Nozomu YASUNAGA, Kenro MITSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190352201
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus includes: a first granular electrode member and a second granular electrode member stored in a water treatment unit and provided so as to be separated from each other; a power supply unit which applies voltage between the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member so that ions contained in treatment target water supplied from one side of the water treatment unit are adsorbed to the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member; and a washing water supply pump which causes washing water to flow from the other side of the water treatment unit to the one side of the water treatment unit, thereby washing the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member, wherein the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member each include a plurality of flowable granular electrode members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKAYAMA, Tokiko Yamauchi, Nozomu Yasunaga, Seiji Noda
  • Publication number: 20190322552
    Abstract: A water treatment apparatus includes: a first granular electrode member and a second granular electrode member stored in a water treatment unit and provided so as to be separated from each other; a power supply unit which applies voltage between the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member so that ions contained in treatment target water supplied from one side of the water treatment unit are adsorbed to the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member; and a washing water supply pump which causes washing water to flow from the other side of the water treatment unit to the one side of the water treatment unit, thereby washing the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member, wherein the first granular electrode member and the second granular electrode member each include a plurality of flowable granular electrode members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro NAKAYAMA, Tokiko YAMAUCHI, Nozomu YASUNAGA, Seiji NODA
  • Patent number: 10259731
    Abstract: An ozone treatment apparatus includes: an ozone gas generator that generates ozone gas from raw material gas; a sludge pump that pressurizes sludge to be treated; an ejector in which the sludge to be treated, which is pressurized by the sludge pump, is injected; and a valve provided between the ozone gas generator and the ejector. The valve becomes in an open state when pressure on the former stage side is larger than pressure on the latter stage side by a specified value or higher. An ozone gas storage facility may be provided between the ozone gas generator and the valve. A sludge mixing tank installed in the latter stage of the ejector and a sludge circulation pump that connects an upper part of the sludge mixing tank and the latter stage of the sludge pump may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tokiko Yamauchi, Makoto Takata, Hiroshi Kuroki, Nozomu Yasunaga, Seiji Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20190046930
    Abstract: A membrane filtration device including a filtration mode for filtrating water to be treated by passing the water to be treated from a primary side to a secondary side of a filtration membrane and a filtration membrane cleaning mode for cleaning the filtration membrane by passing ozone water from the secondary side to the primary side of the filtration membrane, wherein the membrane filtration device includes an inter-membrane differential pressure controller for controlling an inter-membrane differential pressure ?P, and is configured such that in the filtration membrane cleaning mode, the inter-membrane differential pressure controller performs control to gradually lower the inter-membrane differential pressure ?P twin a predetermined initial differential pressure ?P1 to a final differential ?P2, which is a value lower than the ?P1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji IMAMURA, Tokiko YAMAUCHI, Nozomu YASUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20180327288
    Abstract: A water treatment device in which a treatment target water introduction portion is provided in an upper portion of a receptacle, and the water treatment device has a space in which conductive porous members are not disposed between the conductive porous members and the treatment target water introduction portion in the receptacle. When a backwashing fluid is introduced from a lower portion of the receptacle in a desorption, the conductive porous members flow and are agitated owing to the backwashing fluid, because of which a desorption of ions adsorbed to the conductive porous members is promoted. Grains of the agitated conductive porous members collide with other grains of the conductive porous members or with electrodes or a separator, whereby scale and a biofilm appearing on surfaces of the grains of the conductive porous members, the electrodes, or the separator can be removed, and desalination efficiency can be maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tokiko YAMAUCHI, Yoshihiro NAKAYAMA, Eiji IMAMURA, Nozomu YASUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20180265385
    Abstract: This invention is concerning a water treatment apparatus having: an ozone injection facility configured to inject ozone gas into a treatment tank into which untreated water is introduced to be stored therein; a measuring unit configured to measure a spectral light intensity of the untreated water in a plurality of locations in the treatment tank by using at least a first wavelength; and a controller configured to estimate a residual rate of the spectral light intensity at a first wavelength for treated water, which has been treated with ozone in the treatment tank or for both the treated water and the untreated water, based on measurement results in the plurality of locations, measured by the measuring unit, and controls an ozone injection rate used by the ozone injection facility using the estimated residual rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tokiko YAMAUCHI, Nozomu YASUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20180221825
    Abstract: Provided is a water treatment method, in which a cycle including: a filtration step of filtering water to be treated through a separation membrane from a primary side to a secondary side of the separation membrane; and a backwashing step of washing the separation membrane from the secondary side to the primary side is repeated, the water treatment method including the steps of: injecting, into the separation membrane, ozone to be used in the backwashing step; and when, of the repeated cycles, a previous cycle is defined as a first cycle and a following cycle subsequent to the first cycle is defined as a second cycle, setting an ozone injection amount to be injected in the second cycle to a value equal to or less than an ozone injection amount injected in the first cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji IMAMURA, Tokiko YAMAUCHI, Nozomu YASUNAGA
  • Patent number: 9957170
    Abstract: A water treatment device generates a bubble in water to be treated inside a treatment tank, and treats the water to be treated through use of radicals that are generated by bubble electric discharge caused via the bubble. The water treatment device includes main electrodes for forming a main discharge area between a first main electrode and a second main electrode, auxiliary electrodes for forming a preliminary discharge area between a first auxiliary electrode and a second auxiliary electrode, and a bubble generator generating a bubble in water to be treated through use of an externally supplied gas. When a bubble generated by the bubble generator passes through the preliminary discharge area, discharge is caused via the bubble, and, when the bubble in an excited state subsequently passes through the main discharge area, the bubble causes discharge again to generate radicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yasutaka Inanaga, Akira Morikawa, Tokiko Yamauchi, Takao Tsurimoto, Hirotaka Muto, Gaku Oinuma, Masakazu Taki
  • Publication number: 20160368797
    Abstract: An ozone treatment apparatus includes: an ozone gas generator that generates ozone gas from raw material gas; a sludge pump that pressurizes sludge to be treated; an ejector in which the sludge to be treated, which is pressurized by the sludge pump, is injected; and a valve provided between the ozone gas generator and the ejector. The valve becomes in an open state when pressure on the former stage side is larger than pressure on the latter stage side by a specified value or higher. An ozone gas storage facility may be provided between the ozone gas generator and the valve. A sludge mixing tank installed in the latter stage of the ejector and a sludge circulation pump that connects an upper part of the sludge mixing tank and the latter stage of the sludge pump may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tokiko YAMAUCHI, Makoto TAKATA, Hiroshi KUROKI, Nozomu YASUNAGA, Seiji FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150251933
    Abstract: A water treatment device generates a bubble in water to be treated inside a treatment tank, and treats the water to be treated through use of radicals that are generated by bubble electric discharge caused via the bubble. The water treatment device includes main electrodes for forming a main discharge area between a first main electrode and a second main electrode, auxiliary electrodes for forming a preliminary discharge area between a first auxiliary electrode and a second auxiliary electrode, and a bubble generator generating a bubble in water to be treated through use of an externally supplied gas. When a bubble generated by the bubble generator passes through the preliminary discharge area, discharge is caused via the bubble, and, when the bubble in an excited state subsequently passes through the main discharge area, the bubble causes discharge again to generate radicals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yasutaka Inanaga, Akira Morikawa, Tokiko Yamauchi, Takao Tsurimoto, Hirotaka Muto, Gaku Oinuma, Masakazu Taki
  • Publication number: 20060289362
    Abstract: A water treatment method sufficiently decomposes low-degradable organic substances while suppressing production of bromate ions and consumption of hydrogen peroxide. A water treatment method for purifying water using radicals includes injecting an electron-donating substance selected from the group consisting of saccharides, amino acids, lipids, humic acid, and mixtures thereof into water. The radicals are preferably produced using ozone and hydrogen peroxide in combination. Further, the electron-donating substance is preferably injected into the water in a concentration of 0.1 ?mol/L to 30 ?mol/L.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tokiko Yamauchi, Nozomu Yasunaga, Seiji Noda, Seiji Furukawa