Tohoku Electric Power Company, Inc.

Totoku Electric Co., Ltd

Osamu Sugai

Misao Kubota

Toshiaki Yamaguchi

Kenji Shimada

Kikuo Koizumi

Tetsuo Goto

A filter apparatus for removing plankton out of fresh or sea water containing the plankton. The filter apparatus comprises a filter housing provided with a partition plate having a plurality of through-holes thereby to partition the housing into a non-filtrate chamber and a filtrate chamber. A plurality of filter elements, each having open top end, a filter portion and non-filter portion, which are fitted in the through-holes of the partition plate to protrude the open top ends into the filtrate chamber. Plankton in the water are concentrated at the non-filter portion disposed near the partition plate and removed through an opening provided at a portion of the non-filtrate chamber near the partition plate.

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Izumi, Japan

Osamu Sugai