	US 12,076,693 B2
	Hollow-fiber membrane module
Fumihiro Hayashi, Osaka (JP); Yasuhiko Muroya, Osaka (JP); Takamasa Hashimoto, Osaka (JP); Atsushi Uno, Osaka (JP); and Yoshimasa Suzuki, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER, INC., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/279,119
Filed by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC FINE POLYMER, INC., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/037072 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 24, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/075482, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-193633 (JP), filed on Oct. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0394122 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. B01D 63/04 (2006.01); B01D 63/02 (2006.01)

CPC B01D 63/04 (2013.01) [B01D 63/031 (2022.08); B01D 2313/02 (2013.01); B01D 2313/025 (2013.01); B01D 2313/04 (2013.01); B01D 2313/205 (2022.08); B01D 2313/21 (2013.01); B01D 2313/44 (2013.01); B01D 2315/10 (2013.01); B01D 2319/04 (2013.01); Y02E 60/50 (2013.01)]

4 Claims

1. A hollow-fiber membrane module comprising:

a rectangular tubular outer casing with at least one sidewall being open, the outer casing having a plurality of open ports; and an inner casing configured such that a plurality of hollow-fiber membranes aligned in a longitudinal direction of the outer casing are placeable in the inner casing and configured to be insertable into the one sidewall,

wherein a side plate of the inner casing functions as a lid for the one sidewall.