Patents Assigned to Prefectural Economic Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives
  • Patent number: 5349120
    Abstract: A method for cultivation of Lyophyllum ulmarium to form a fruiting body. The Lyophyllum ulmarium is a strain capable of forming a white fruiting body with or without indistinct darker spots around the center thereof. Also provided is a strain of Lyophyllum ulmarium capable of forming such a white fruiting body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignees: Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd., Nagano Prefectural Economic Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives
    Inventors: Noriyasu Kubota, Yoshihiro Miyagawa, Yukita Kawano
  • Patent number: 4300448
    Abstract: An apparatus for extracting the pulp from citrus fruits for the preparation of a fruit drink containing separate juice vesicles or sacs of the pulp comprises a plurality of clamps mounted on the periphery of a rotary drum to hold the halves of the fruits each divided into two across the core, with the cut surfaces exposed, a rotating shaft located opposite to one of the clamps in gripping position and substantially aligned to the core of each clamped half of the fruits for rotation about the common axis, and a nozzle having an opening provided radially with respect to the core of each halved fruit and attached to the end of the rotating shaft, whereby the pulp in the form of separate juice sacs is forced out of the halves by a jet of fluid from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Prefectural Economic Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives
    Inventors: Masayuki Hayashi, Yasushi Ifuku, Hirofumi Uchiyama, Yosimi Kaga, Akifumi Nakamori
  • Patent number: 4294861
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing citrus fruits into a drink, which is the juice of the fruits containing separate juice vesicles, or sacs, of the pulp, by cutting the fruits into pieces and directing jets of a fluid against the cut surfaces, thereby separating and forcing the pulp in the form of separate sacs away from the peel and segmental membrane of the fruit pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Prefectural Economic Federation of Agricultural Co-operatives
    Inventors: Yasushi Ifuku, Hirofumi Uchiyama, Masayuki Hayashi