Patents by Inventor Yohsuke FUKUCHI

Yohsuke FUKUCHI 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: 20240139670
    Abstract: A hydrogen fluoride gas removal device includes: a hydrogen fluoride gas removal treatment machine that is configured to perform a treatment of removing the hydrogen fluoride gas from the mixed gas by bringing the mixed gas into contact with a removal agent for removing the hydrogen fluoride gas from the mixed gas; a removal agent supply machine that is configured to supply the removal agent to the hydrogen fluoride gas removal treatment machine; a removal agent moving machine that is configured to move the removal agent, which is accommodated in the hydrogen fluoride gas removal treatment machine, within the hydrogen fluoride gas removal treatment machine; and a removal agent discharge machine that is configured to discharge the used removal agent from the hydrogen fluoride gas removal treatment machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Resonac Corporation
    Inventors: Riku KANAUCHI, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11492712
    Abstract: An anode mounting member (16) of a fluorine electrolytic cell including: a plurality of stacked annular packings surrounding a sidewall of a cylindrical anode packing gland (14); a cylindrical exterior member (23) surrounding an outer periphery of the packings; and an annular fastening member (24) that fastens the plurality of packings and the exterior member (23) to the anode packing gland (14), wherein among the packings a first ceramic packing (17) is located at an end of the longitudinal direction on an electrolyte tank side, and a second resin packing (18) is adjacent to the first packing (17), central axes of the anode packing gland (14) and the exterior member (23) coincide, an inner diameter (17r) is 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm larger than an outer diameter (14R), and an outer diameter (17R) is 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm smaller than an inner diameter (23r).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke Fukuchi, Nozomi Inoue, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220275523
    Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including electrolyzing an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell, measuring the water concentration in the electrolyte in the electrolyzing, and sending a fluid generated in the inside of the electrolytic cell in the electrolyzing the electrolyte, from the inside to the outside of the electrolytic cell through a flow path. The flow path in which the fluid flows is switched in accordance with the water concentration in the electrolyte measured in the measuring the water concentration, such that the fluid is sent to a first flow path when the water concentration in the electrolyte measured in the measuring the water concentration is not more than a predetermined reference value, or the fluid is sent to a second flow path when the water concentration is more than the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shinya OGURO, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220251716
    Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including electrolyzing an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell, measuring an intensity of sound generated near an anode in an inside of the electrolytic cell as the electrolyte is electrolyzed in the electrolyzing, and sending a fluid generated in the inside of the electrolytic cell in the electrolyzing the electrolyte, from the inside to the outside of the electrolytic cell through a flow path. The flow path is switched in accordance with the intensity of sound measured, such that the fluid is sent to a first flow path when the intensity of sound measured in the measuring an intensity of sound is not more than a predetermined reference value, or the fluid is sent to a second flow path when the intensity of sound measured in the measuring an intensity of sound is more than the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Katsumi MIKAMI, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220234890
    Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including a fluorination step of obtaining a reaction mixture containing a major fluorinated substance that is a target component generated by fluorination of a raw material compound and by-product hydrogen fluoride, a separation step of separating the reaction mixture to obtain a main product component containing the major fluorinated substance and a by-product component containing the by-product hydrogen fluoride, a purification step of purifying the by-product component to obtain a recovered hydrogen fluoride component in which a concentration of an organic substance is reduced and a concentration of the by-product hydrogen fluoride is increased, an electrolysis step of performing electrolysis using the recovered hydrogen fluoride component as at least a part of an electrolyte to produce fluorine gas, and an introduction step of introducing the fluorine gas obtained in the electrolysis step into a reaction field for fluorination in the fluorination step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Koki FUJIMURA, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI, Yohsuke FUKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220235471
    Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including electrolyzing an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell, measuring an electric energy accumulated after the electrolyte is placed in the electrolytic cell, and the electrolyzing is started, and sending a fluid generated in the inside of the electrolytic cell in the electrolyzing the electrolyte, to the outside of the electrolytic cell through a flow path. In the sending, the flow path is switched in accordance with the electric energy measured in the measuring an electric energy, such that the fluid is sent to a first flow path that sends the fluid to a first outside when the electric energy measured in the measuring an electric energy is not less than a predetermined reference value, or the fluid is sent to a second flow path that sends the fluid to a second outside when the electric energy is less than the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Katsumi MIKAMI, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Nozomi KUSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220228273
    Abstract: A device for producing fluorine gas has a first flow path configured to send a fluid from the inside of an electrolytic cell through a mist removal unit configured to remove mist from the fluid to a fluorine gas selection unit and a second flow path configured to send the fluid from the inside of the electrolytic cell to the fluorine gas selection unit without passing through the mist removal unit and has a flow path switching unit configured to switch a flow path through which the fluid flows depending on the average particle size of the mist measured by an average particle size measurement unit. The second flow path has a clogging suppression mechanism configured to suppress clogging of the second flow path by the mist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Katsumi MIKAMI, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220228272
    Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including electrolyzing an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell, measuring the current efficiency of fluorine gas production in the electrolyzing, and sending a fluid generated in the inside of the electrolytic cell in the electrolyzing the electrolyte, from the inside to the outside of the electrolytic cell through a flow path. In the sending, the flow path in which the fluid flows is switched in accordance with the current efficiency measured in the measuring the current efficiency, such that the fluid is sent to a first flow path that sends the fluid to a first outside when the current efficiency measured in the measuring the current efficiency is not less than a predetermined reference value, or the fluid is sent to a second flow path that sends the fluid to a second outside when the current efficiency is less than the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Katsuaki TO, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220213605
    Abstract: A method for producing fluorine gas including electrolyzing an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell, measuring the average particle size of a mist contained in a fluid generated in the inside of the electrolytic cell in the electrolyzing the electrolyte, and sending the fluid from the inside to the outside of the electrolytic cell through a flow path. The flow path in which the fluid flows is switched in accordance with the average particle size of the mist measured in the measuring the average particle size, such that the fluid is sent to a first flow path when the average particle size of the mist measured in the measuring the average particle size is not more than a predetermined reference value, or the fluid is sent to a second flow path when the average particle size is more than the predetermined reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Katsumi MIKAMI, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220154353
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing fluorine gas, capable of suppressing clogging of pipes and valves with mist. Fluorine gas is produced by a method including electrolyzing an electrolyte in an electrolytic cell, measuring the water concentration in a fluid generated in a cathode chamber in the electrolyzing, and sending a fluid generated in the inside of the electrolytic cell in the electrolyzing the electrolyte, from the inside to the outside of the electrolytic cell through a flow path. In the sending, the flow path in which the fluid flows is switched in accordance with the water concentration measured in the measuring the water concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shinya OGURO, Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11220471
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing tetrafluoromethane, and the method is unlikely to damage a reaction apparatus and can produce tetrafluoromethane safely, inexpensively, and stably. To a raw material liquid (1) containing a reaction inducer and a fluorinated hydrocarbon represented by chemical formula CpHqClrFs (in the chemical formula, p is an integer of 3 or more and 18 or less, q is an integer of 0 or more and 3 or less, r is an integer of 0 or more and 9 or less, and s is an integer of 5 or more and 30 or less) and having no carbon-carbon unsaturated bond, fluorine gas is introduced to give tetrafluoromethane. The reaction inducer is a hydrocarbon polymer solid at normal temperature and pressure and is reacted with fluorine gas to induce a reaction of forming tetrafluoromethane from the fluorinated hydrocarbon and the fluorine gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke Fukuchi, Tomokazu Sugawara, Shinya Oguro, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210395901
    Abstract: There is provided a fluorine gas production device in which, even when an electrolytic solution containing hydrogen fluoride is electrolyzed at a high current density, a recombination reaction in the electrolytic solution and a recombination reaction in gas phase parts of an anode chamber and a cathode chamber are less likely to occur and the electrolytic solution can be electrolyzed with high current efficiency to produce fluorine gas. The fluorine gas production device includes an electrolytic cell (1), a partition wall (7) extending downward in the vertical direction from the ceiling surface inside the electrolytic cell (1) to partition the electrolytic cell (1) into an anode chamber (12) and a cathode chamber (14), an anode (3), and a cathode (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Nozomi KUSUMOTO, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11192836
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a fluorine-containing organic compound. The method can immediately detect the occurrence of a side reaction in direct fluorination reaction using fluorine gas and can give a highly pure fluorine-containing organic compound at a high yield. A raw material liquid (1) containing a raw material organic compound having a hydrogen atom and two or more carbon atoms is reacted with fluorine gas in a reaction container (11) to replace the hydrogen atom of the raw material organic compound with a fluorine atom to give a fluorine-containing organic compound. In the reaction, tetrafluoromethane contained in a gas phase (2) in the reaction container (11) is continuously measured, and the amount of the fluorine gas supplied to the reaction container (11) is controlled depending on the measured value of the tetrafluoromethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke Fukuchi, Shinichi Yorozuya, Nozomi Kusumoto, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11192838
    Abstract: Provided is a method that is for producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene, discharges small amounts of industrial wastes, and is industrially applicable. The method for producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene includes a reaction step of reacting a halogenated butane represented by chemical formula, CF2X1-CFX2-CFX3-CF2X4 (X1, X2, X3, and X4 are each independently a halogen atom other than a fluorine atom) in an organic solvent in the presence of zinc to eliminate the halogen atoms, X1, X2, X3, and X4, other than the fluorine atoms to generate hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene, giving a reaction product containing the hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene, and an aftertreatment step of separating the hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene from the reaction product produced in the reaction step, then adding water to a reaction product residue after the separating, and removing the organic solvent, giving an aqueous solution of zinc halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke Fukuchi, Atsushi Nakamura, Nozomi Inoue, Mitsuhiro Hino, Tomoki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20210363078
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing tetrafluoromethane, and the method is unlikely to damage a reaction apparatus and can produce tetrafluoromethane safely, inexpensively, and stably. To a raw material liquid (1) containing a reaction inducer and a fluorinated hydrocarbon represented by chemical formula CpHqClrFs (in the chemical formula, p is an integer of 3 or more and 18 or less, q is an integer of 0 or more and 3 or less, r is an integer of 0 or more and 9 or less, and s is an integer of 5 or more and 30 or less) and having no carbon-carbon unsaturated bond, fluorine gas is introduced to give tetrafluoromethane. The reaction inducer is a hydrocarbon polymer solid at normal temperature and pressure and is reacted with fluorine gas to induce a reaction of forming tetrafluoromethane from the fluorinated hydrocarbon and the fluorine gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Tomokazu SUGAWARA, Shinya OGURO, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11168043
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for producing 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobutane that are unlikely to lose 3,4-dichloro-1-butene as the material or 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobutane as the product and can be stably and economically produce 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobutane. A reaction liquid (1) containing 3,4-dichloro-1-butene is placed in a reaction container (11), then chlorine gas is supplied to a gas phase (2) in the reaction container (11), and the 3,4-dichloro-1-butene is reacted with the chlorine gas to give 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobutane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Katsumi Mikami, Yohsuke Fukuchi, Shinya Oguro, Hiroshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20210332487
    Abstract: An anode mounting member (16) of a fluorine electrolytic cell including: a plurality of stacked annular packings surrounding a sidewall of a cylindrical anode packing gland (14); a cylindrical exterior member (23) surrounding an outer periphery of the packings; and an annular fastening member (24) that fastens the plurality of packings and the exterior member (23) to the anode packing gland (14), wherein among the packings a first ceramic packing (17) is located at an end of the longitudinal direction on an electrolyte tank side, and a second resin packing (18) is adjacent to the first packing (17), central axes of the anode packing gland (14) and the exterior member (23) coincide, an inner diameter (17r) is 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm larger than an outer diameter (14R), and an outer diameter (17R) is 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm smaller than an inner diameter (23r).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Nozomi INOUE, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210310138
    Abstract: An anode for electrolytic synthesis (3) for electrolytically synthesizing fluorine gas. The anode includes an anode substrate (31) formed of a metallic material and a carbonaceous layer (33) formed of a carbonaceous material and arranged on the surface of the anode substrate (31). The metallic material is an iron-based alloy containing iron and nickel. Also disclosed is a method for producing fluorine gas using the anode for electrolytic synthesis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Shinya OGURO, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210292923
    Abstract: There is provided an anode for electrolytic synthesis capable of electrolytically synthesizing fluorine gas or a fluorine containing compound by a simple process and at a low cost while suppressing the occurrence of an anode effect. An anode for electrolytic synthesis (3) for electrolytically synthesizing fluorine gas or a fluorine containing compound includes an anode substrate formed of a carbonaceous material and a metal coating film coating the anode substrate. Metal constituting the metal coating film is nickel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke FUKUCHI, Katsumi MIKAMI, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11117850
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene, and the method can produce hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene at an industrially sufficient level of yield. In a reaction liquid containing a halogenated butane represented by chemical formula, CF2X1—CFX2—CFX3—CF2X4 (X1, X2, X3, and X4 are each independently a halogen atom other than a fluorine atom), zinc, and an organic solvent, a reaction is conducted to eliminate the halogen atoms other than a fluorine atom, X1, X2, X3, and X4, from the halogenated butane, yielding hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene. During the reaction, the concentration of a zinc halide generated by the reaction, in the reaction liquid is not more than the solubility of the zinc halide in the organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Yohsuke Fukuchi, Shinya Oguro, Nozomi Inoue