Patents by Inventor Yukihiko Okamoto

Yukihiko Okamoto 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: 10669173
    Abstract: A ballast water treatment device includes an oxidant supply amount control device in which a storage unit stores a relationship between an absorbance of a raw water for a ballast and a dissolved organic carbon concentration thereof and another relationship between the dissolved concentration and a residual oxidant concentration required after a predetermined time from an oxidant supply, to kill organisms and to suppress their regrowth in the ballast. A calculation unit derives the required residual oxidant concentration corresponding to the absorbance measured by a meter by referring to the relationships and calculates a target oxidant supply amount using the required residual oxidant concentration. For the target, a control unit controls an oxidant supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Fujiwara, Masanori Nagafuji, Yukihiko Okamoto, Yusuke Shimono
  • Publication number: 20190202721
    Abstract: A ballast water treatment device includes an oxidant supply amount control device in which a storage unit stores a relationship between an absorbance of a raw water for a ballast and a dissolved organic carbon concentration thereof and another relationship between the dissolved concentration and a residual oxidant concentration required after a predetermined time from an oxidant supply, to kill organisms and to suppress their regrowth in the ballast. A calculation unit derives the required residual oxidant concentration corresponding to the absorbance measured by a meter by referring to the relationships and calculates a target oxidant supply amount using the required residual oxidant concentration. For the target, a control unit controls an oxidant supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Fujiwara, Masanori Nagafuji, Yukihiko Okamoto, Yusuke Shimono
  • Patent number: 7776224
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating ballast water, the apparatus being capable of treating ballast water so as to meet the ballast water standard established by the IMO exactly at low costs. The treatment apparatus of the present invention comprises a filter (4) that filters sea water to trap aquatic organisms, a bactericide supply apparatus (5) that supplies bactericide to the filtrate sea water, and a venturi tube 7 that introduces the sea water to which the bactericide is added, to produce cavitation in the sea water, thereby diffusing the bactericide and also damaging and destroying aquatic organisms in the sea water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: JFE Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiko Okamoto, Shigeki Fujiwara, Koji Fuchigami, Keisuke Nakahara, Masakuni Inoko, Sho Ishida
  • Publication number: 20090127207
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating ballast water, the apparatus being capable of treating ballast water so as to meet the ballast water standard established by the IMO exactly at low costs. The treatment apparatus of the present invention comprises a filter (4) that filters sea water to trap aquatic organisms, a bactericide supply apparatus (5) that supplies bactericide to the filtrate sea water, and a venturi tube 7 that introduces the sea water to which the bactericide is added, to produce cavitation in the sea water, thereby diffusing the bactericide and also damaging and destroying aquatic organisms in the sea water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Yukihiko Okamoto, Shigeki Fujiwara, Koji Fuchigami, Keisuke Nakahara, Masakuni Inoko, Sho Ishida
  • Patent number: 6497819
    Abstract: A method for treating waste water and a plant designed for preventing the precipitation of carriers under the air blower installed for reaction tank or aeration tank, wherein the plant comprises an aeration tank 1 containing the carriers 2 for growing microorganism for biological treatment of waste water or the subunit 1a joined with the aeration tank through a partition wall 4 including the screen capable of separating the carriers 2, air blower 3 provided for the aeration tank or the subunit of the aeration tank, air bubble generator 5 or submerged stirrer provided under the air blower 3 for creating the flow of water so that the carriers 2 under the blower 3 can be liquidized by the flow of water created by the air bubble generator or the submerged stirrer to prevent the precipitation of the carriers 2 under the air blower 3, whereby not only the precipitation of the carriers under the air blower 3 can be prevented but also the water treatment efficiency and capacity meeting the designed numerical requirem
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Baba, Toshiaki Tsubone, Tatsuo Takechi, Shinichi Endo, Yukihiko Okamoto
  • Patent number: 5231947
    Abstract: A ship's rudder has a main rudder body with a cross-sectional shape that is streamlined and symmetrical relative to the vertical center plane of the rudder. A pair of fins extend horizontally from opposite vertical surfaces of the rudder body, symmetrically arranged relative to the center plane of the rudder. The chord length of each fin decreases from a root of the fin toward the tip of the fin. The leading edges of the fins coincide at the center plane of the main rudder body, and are located at the same level as the center line of a propeller of the ship. The fins have winglets on their tip ends. One of the winglets is directed upwardly and the other winglet is directed downwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kasahara, Yukihiko Okamoto
  • Patent number: D1024189
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Tanaka, Robin Riazi, Daiki Okamoto, Yukihiko Sato