Patents by Inventor Toshimitu Akiyama

Toshimitu Akiyama 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: 4783269
    Abstract: An injection control system of a flocculating agent comprises: a flocculating pool into which the inflow liquid flocculating agent is injected and which forms flocs of suspended matters in the liquid; flocculating agent injecting means for injecting the flocculating agent into the flocculating pool; floc image pickup means for photographing a state of the flocs in the flocculating pool and for converting luminance data of the flocs into an electric signal; image recognizing means for recognizing the shape of floc by binarizing the image signal derived from the floc image pickup means on the basis of a luminance level of each pixel; flocculation state deciding means for calculating a characteristic amount of a diameter distribution of the flocs on the basis of the floc shapes recognized by the image recognizing means; and injection amount control means for controlling an amount of the flocculating agent which is injected from the flocculating agent injecting means on the basis of the characteristic amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Baba, Shoji Watanabe, Naoki Hara, Mikio Yoda, Shunji Mori, Shunsuke Nogita, Yuzi Yamasawa, Toshimitu Akiyama