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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1999
Koichi Numata, Nagoya, JP;
Yasushi Oda, Aichi-gun, JP;
Masami Miyata, Toyota, JP;
Yukio Okamura, Toyota, JP;
Toshiaki Kimura, Toyota, JP;
Masatoshi Uchida, Tsu, JP;
Osamu Asami, Konan, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A novel microorganism which has the following characteristics: morphology (coccoid, rod shaped), gram staining (+), spore forming (−), motility (−), relationship to exygen (aerobic), oxidase test (−), catalase test (+), resistance to acid (−), rod-coccus cycle (+), and GC content of DNA (mole %) (73 (by HPLC)), and which can decompose chloroethylene. The microorganism can decompose in 24 hours 30 ppm of trichloroethylene, and decompose of 100 ppm of trichloroethylene by 50%.