Patents Assigned to Meiji Milk Products Company, Limited
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Patent number: 6637318Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the generation of smell by sterilization and to improve the taste in carrying out the sterilization of milk or the like, and the method of the present invention is a method where sterilization is carried out after the dissolved oxygen in milk or the like is substituted with nitrogen gas, and the method is characterized in that a means in which nitrogen gas is directly mixed with and dispersed in milk or the like and a means in which milk or the like with which nitrogen gas is not mixed is sprayed from a nozzle(s) to the top of milk or the like, with and in which nitrogen gas has been mixed and dispersed, stored in a nitrogen gas substituting tank under a nitrogen gas atmosphere, are jointly used whereby the dissolved oxygen amount in the milk or the like is reduced by means of substitution of the dissolved oxygen with nitrogen gas, followed by subjecting to sterilization.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company, LimitedInventors: Tetsu Kamiya, Ikuru Toyoda, Hiroki Inagaki, Yukinari Takeuchi, Shunichi Kudo
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Publication number: 20030161820Abstract: A food or drink product with a disinfection property of Helicobacter pylori and/or a protection property against infection with H. pylori, comprising as the effective ingredient Lactobacillus gasseri OLL 2716 (FERM BP-6999) with a high disinfection potency of H. pylori.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Applicant: MEIJI MILK PRODUCTS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Katsunori Kimura, Haruhisa Hirata, Yasuhiro Koga
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Publication number: 20030015101Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the generation of smell by sterilization and to improve the taste in carrying out the sterilization of milk or the like, and the method of the present invention is a method where sterilization is carried out after the dissolved oxygen in milk or the like is substituted with nitrogen gas, and the method is characterized in that a means in which nitrogen gas is directly mixed with and dispersed in milk or the like and a means in which milk or the like with which nitrogen gas is not mixed is sprayed from a nozzle(s) to the top of milk or the like, with and in which nitrogen gas has been mixed and dispersed, stored in a nitrogen gas substituting tank under a nitrogen gas atmosphere, are jointly used whereby the dissolved oxygen amount in the milk or the like is reduced by means of substitution of the dissolved oxygen with nitrogen gas, followed by subjecting to sterilization.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2002Publication date: January 23, 2003Applicant: MEIJI MILK PRODUCTS COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tetsu Kamiya, Ikuru Toyoda, Hiroki Inagaki, Yukinari Takeuchi, Shunichi Kudo
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Patent number: 6447828Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the generation of smell by sterilization and to improve the taste in carrying out the sterilization of milk or the like, and the method of the present invention is a method where sterilization is carried out after the dissolved oxygen in milk or the like is substituted with nitrogen gas, and the method is characterized in that a step in which nitrogen gas is directly mixed with and dispersed in milk or the like and a step in which milk or the like with which nitrogen gas is not mixed is sprayed from a nozzle(s) to the top of milk or the like, with and in which nitrogen gas has been mixed and dispersed, stored in a nitrogen gas substituting tank under a nitrogen gas atmosphere, are jointly used whereby the dissolved oxygen amount in the milk or the like is reduced by substitution of the dissolved oxygen with nitrogen gas, followed by subjecting to sterilization.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company, LimitedInventors: Tetsu Kamiya, Ikuru Toyoda, Hiroki Inagaki, Yukinari Takeuchi, Shunichi Kudo
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Patent number: 6355279Abstract: Extract of at least one selected from GAJUTSU (zedoariae rhizoma), KYOUOU (curcumae rhizoma) and ICHO leaves (ginko leaves) obtained using polar solvent, and composition containing the extract are disclosed; since the extract has an excellent effect on lowering the level of blood triglyceride, is derived from natural material and has an excellent level of safety, the extract and the composition can be used as or in drink, food or medicine.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1998Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Zai-Si Ji, Kazuo Shin, Hiroyuki Ito, Masako Tsunematsu
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Patent number: 6221354Abstract: A method for inducing immunological tolerance in mammals which comprises feeding an antigen to a mammal, wherein the mammal is not allowed to ingest a fat-soluble component or a fat-soluble component-containing substance simultaneous with ingestion of the antigen, and an immunological tolerance inducing food kit and an immunological tolerance inducer kit which comprise an antigen-containing preparation containing no fat-soluble component and an antigen-free preparation containing no fat-soluble component. According to this invention, immunological tolerance can be induced effectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1999Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company, LimitedInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Yuka Nozaki, Yukiko Ishiguro, Tamotsu Kuwata
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Patent number: 6007813Abstract: Secretion of gastric acid and development of ulcers can be inhibited by administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a hot water extract of the cultivated mycelia of Cordyceps sinensis.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1998Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Naoki Taketomo, Akinobu Tsunoo, Hiroyuki Itoh
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Patent number: 5951984Abstract: A method for inducing immunological tolerance in mammals which comprises feeding an immunogen to a mammal, wherein the mammal is not allowed to ingest a fat-soluble component or a fat-soluble component-containing substance simultaneous with ingestion of the immunogen, and an immunological tolerance including food kit and an immunological tolerance inducer kit which comprises an immunogen-containing preparation containing no fat-soluble component and an immunogen-free preparation containing no fat-soluble component. According to this invention, immunological tolerance can be induced effectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1997Date of Patent: September 14, 1999Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company, LimitedInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Yuka Nozaki, Yukiko Ishiguro, Tamotsu Kuwata
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Patent number: 5948404Abstract: This invention is a healthful composition comprising a hot-water extract of the cultivated mycelia of Cordyceps sinensis.The healthful composition of the invention is an oral healthful composition which is highly safe and has excellent cardiotonic, hypotensive, antitussive and anti-fatigue effects.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1996Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Naoki Taketomo, Akinobu Tsunoo, Hiroyuki Itoh
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Patent number: 5929109Abstract: The present invention relates to an agent for enhancing and stabilizing the activity of Bifidus factor, containing at least one member selected from the group consisting of ascorbic acid, hyposulfurous acid and acetic anhydride as the effective ingredient, and by preparing the agent singly or in combination with Bifidus factor as a food and drink type or as a composition of pharmaceutical type, intestinal microflora can be ameliorated. The agent can be used as a selective medium for assaying the number of bifidobacteria.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1997Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Hiroharu Mori, Kakuhei Isawa, Tsutomu Kaneko
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Patent number: 5912032Abstract: A process for producing a calcium-supplemented milk drink, by adding to cow's milk, a whey mineral being of a calcium content of 2 to 8% by weight and produced by removing the protein and lactose from whey and concentrating the resulting whey by ultrafiltration and/or microfiltration. By the process, there is produced a calcium-supplemented milk drink having good flavor with no precipitate of calcium salts or being provided with attractive flavor, and being capable of passing through the sterilization process to be prepared into a commercially aseptic state.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1996Date of Patent: June 15, 1999Assignees: Meiji Milk Products Company, Limited, Davisco Foods International, Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Komatsu, Tadashi Nakatsubo, Hideo Ohtomo, Tamotsu Kuwata, Mark Mitchell Davis, Martin Edward Davis
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Patent number: 5688683Abstract: Disclosed is the plasmid pBUL1 having a restriction endonuclease cleavage map as shown in FIG. 1 and having a length of about 7.9 kbp and its derivatives. The plasmid was isolated from Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus M-878. The plasmid is useful as a vector for breeding various microorganisms such as lactic acid bacteria, and the derivatives thereof are useful also as a shuttle vector.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1995Date of Patent: November 18, 1997Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Yoshiyuki Ito, Yasuko Sasaki, Takashi Sasaki
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Patent number: 5510315Abstract: The present invention relates to a freshness retentive for cut flowers, which comprises a mixture of a silver compound and a primary amine and/or a nucleic acid-related substance and/or reaction products thereof. The silver compound is silver nitrate, silver acetate or silver phosphate; the primary amine is methylamine, ethylamine, monoethanolamine, tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, 2-amino-2-methyl-1,3-propanediol, 2-amino-2-ethyl-1,3-propanediol, .alpha.-aminooxyacetic acid or aminoethoxyvinylglycine; and the nucleic acid-related substance is nucleic base, nucleoside, nucleotide, oligonucleotide, polynucleotide, purine derivative or pyrimidine derivative.The present freshness retentive for cut flowers demonstrates an extremely excellent effect on cut flowers highly sensitive to ethylene, e.g. carnation, Gypsophila elegans, sweet pea, etc., as well as on cut flowers low sensitive to ethylene, e.g. chrysanthemum, rose, orchid, etc., for their freshness retention.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1993Date of Patent: April 23, 1996Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Takahiro Kurotsu, Hiroyuki Itoh, Sadatoshi Sakuma
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Patent number: 5436020Abstract: The present invention provides formulated milk compositions for infants analogous to human milk in which non-protein nitrogen components are abundant and the contents of .beta.-lactoglobulin and/or .alpha..sub.S casein are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1992Date of Patent: July 25, 1995Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Tamotsu Kuwata, Tetsuo Kaneko, Tadashi Kojima, Toshitaka Kobayashi, Yoshiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 5427813Abstract: Whey or whey concentrate is adsorbed on an ion-exchange resin and non-protein nitrogen (NPN) is selectively desorbed by the use of whey or whey concentrate or eluent, thereby whey, whey concentrate or solution with sodium of a low content and with NPN of a high content being obtained efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1993Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Shigeko Suido, Hatsumi Hama, Toshitaka Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5290685Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for separating and concentrating acidic peptide, especially phosphopeptide having a phosphoserine residue, from a peptide mixture prepared by digesting casein with protease.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1993Date of Patent: March 1, 1994Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Kaoru Koide, Takashi Fukushima, Tamotsu Kuwata, Koki Itoyama, Fumio Miyazawa
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Patent number: 5270207Abstract: A culture equipment for bio-organisms such as animal cells and plant cells, having substratum and a circulation-inducing chamber, accommodating the material for substratum made of fibrous, or porous, or layered substance, such as of ceramics, plastics, resin or skin having a number of spaces in the substratum for adhesion or immobilization of microorganisms and medium permeation in the lid-containing vessel, and circulating the culture medium by a rotater device in the circulation-generating room is described in the present invention. The gas exchange of the culture medium is performed in the upper part of the vessel in the course of circulation. Growth and maintenance of micro-organism cells in mass and at a high density can be attained.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1991Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Toshiharu Matsumura, Yasuko Sawai, Jun Suzuki, Takao Fuzimori
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Patent number: 5135869Abstract: This invention relates to a method of selectively degrading .beta.-lactoglobulin contained in cow's milk-serum protein by using a specific enzyme capable of selectively degrading .beta.-lactoglobulin.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1989Date of Patent: August 4, 1992Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Tetsuo Kaneko, Tadashi Kojima, Tamotsu Kuwata, Yoshiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 4988456Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a W/O/W type multiple emulsion using a polyglycerol polyricinolate (i.e. a polyglycerol ester of a polycondensed fatty acid of caster oil).The use of the polyglycerol polyricinolate is effective in increasing the rate of formation of the W/O/W type multiple emulsion remarkably and giving a W/O/W type multiple emulsion which is stable over a long period of time. The W/O/W type multiple emulsion has also an excellent heat stability and is useful for the production of medicines and cosmetics.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1989Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Yasuyuki Takahashi, Toshiro Yoshida, Takeshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 4985173Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a W/O/W type multiple emulsion using a polyglycerol polyricinolate (i.e. a polyglycerol ester of a polycondensed fatty acid of castor oil).The use of the polyglycerol polyricinolate is effective in increasing the rate of formation of the W/O/W type multiple emulsion remarkably and giving a W/O/W type multiple emulsion which is stable over a long period of time. The W/O/W type multiple emulsion has also an excellent heat stability and is useful for the production of medicines and cosmetics.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1990Date of Patent: January 15, 1991Assignee: Meiji Milk Products Company LimitedInventors: Yasuyuki Takahashi, Toshiro Yoshida, Takeshi Takahashi