Patents by Inventor Kento Kanaya
Kento Kanaya has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11119456Abstract: A production system includes an information processing device that carries out the processes of: (i) generating one or more production condition candidates each of which is a candidate for a production condition under which the product is produced; (ii) determining, using a prediction model, a prediction of a production result of a case in which the product is produced under each of the one or more production condition candidates; and (iii) generates, by evaluating a result of the prediction based on a predetermined evaluation standard, an evaluation of each of the one or more production condition candidates. The information processing device repeats the process (ii) while changing between the one or more production condition candidates, and determines a production condition candidate, the evaluation of which in the process (iii) satisfies a predetermined standard, to be the production condition under which the product is produced.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignees: KANEKA CORPORATION, Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc.Inventors: Kento Kanaya, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Yosuke Aoki
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Patent number: 10947624Abstract: Provided is a fuel distribution pipe connected to a fuel pipe and distributes and supplies fuel to a plurality of fuel injection devices, comprising: a tubular base material forming a body of the fuel distribution pipe; and a plating layer formed on a surface of the base material, wherein the base material includes a sealing surface formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof and comes into press-contact with the fuel pipe, and wherein a thickness of the plating layer on the sealing surface is thinner than that of the plating layer on an outer peripheral surface of the fuel distribution pipe.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: SANOH INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Toyoshima, Kento Kanaya
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Publication number: 20200293011Abstract: A production system includes an information processing device that carries out the processes of: (i) generating one or more production condition candidates each of which is a candidate for a production condition under which the product is produced; (ii) determining, using a prediction model, a prediction of a production result of a case in which the product is produced under each of the one or more production condition candidates; and (iii) generates, by evaluating a result of the prediction based on a predetermined evaluation standard, an evaluation of each of the one or more production condition candidates. The information processing device repeats the process (ii) while changing between the one or more production condition candidates, and determines a production condition candidate, the evaluation of which in the process (iii) satisfies a predetermined standard, to be the production condition under which the product is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicants: KANEKA CORPORATION, Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc.Inventors: Kento Kanaya, Takafumi Yamaguchi, Yosuke Aoki
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Publication number: 20200063702Abstract: Provided is a fuel distribution pipe connected to a fuel pipe and distributes and supplies fuel to a plurality of fuel injection devices, comprising: a tubular base material forming a body of the fuel distribution pipe; and a plating layer formed on a surface of the base material, wherein the base material includes a sealing surface formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof and comes into press-contact with the fuel pipe, and wherein a thickness of the plating layer on the sealing surface is thinner than that of the plating layer on an outer peripheral surface of the fuel distribution pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2016Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Hideki TOYOSHIMA, Kento KANAYA
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Patent number: 10239811Abstract: A process for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 includes removing moisture from an aqueous suspension including a reduced coenzyme Q10-containing microbial cell or a disrupted cell thereof such that a de-moisturized substance is obtained and in contact with an oxidizing atmosphere, and that an oxidized coenzyme Q10 is produced in an amount of 50 mass % or more relative to a total amount of the oxidized and reduced coenzymes Q10, and reducing the oxidized coenzyme Q10 outside a microbial cell such that a reduced coenzyme Q10 is recovered.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Kanaya, Hiroko Okatsu
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Patent number: 10040053Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide to a method for easily producing high-performance porous cellulose beads having high mechanical strength. Also, the objective of the present invention is to provide an adsorbent produced from the high-performance porous cellulose beads. According to the present invention, high-performance porous cellulose beads can be easily produced from porous cellulose beads, and an adsorbent having high strength and high adsorption amount can be easily produced from the high-performance porous cellulose beads.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Kanaya, Yoshikazu Kawai, Takahiro Okubo, Ken-ichiro Morio
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Publication number: 20180134644Abstract: A process for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 includes removing moisture from an aqueous suspension including a reduced coenzyme Q10-containing microbial cell or a disrupted cell thereof such that a de-moisturized substance is obtained and in contact with an oxidizing atmosphere, and that an oxidized coenzyme Q10 is produced in an amount of 50 mass % or more relative to a total amount of the oxidized and reduced coenzymes Q10, and reducing the oxidized coenzyme Q10 outside a microbial cell such that a reduced coenzyme Q10 is recovered.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Kanaya, Hiroko Okatsu
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Publication number: 20160251394Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide to a method for easily producing high-performance porous cellulose beads having high mechanical strength. Also, the objective of the present invention is to provide an adsorbent produced from the high-performance porous cellulose beads. According to the present invention, high-performance porous cellulose beads can be easily produced from porous cellulose beads, and an adsorbent having high strength and high adsorption amount can be easily produced from the high-performance porous cellulose beads.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento KANAYA, Yoshikazu KAWAI, Takahiro OKUBO, Ken-ichiro MORIO
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Patent number: 9096508Abstract: The present invention provides an efficient method for industrially producing a naturally-derived carotenoid composition with a large amount of a carotenoid such as astaxanthin from a culture of a yeast of the genus Xanthophyllomyces without requiring any special extraction equipment and any complicated refinement process and without any need for organic solvents harmful to humans. Provided is a method for producing a carotenoid composition, including the steps of washing a carotenoid-containing yeast of the genus Xanthophyllomyces with an organic solvent (A) at 30° C. or lower, and extracting a carotenoid from the washed yeast with an organic solvent (B) at 10° C. to 70° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Kanaya, Koichi Kinoshita, Masaru Hirano
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Patent number: 9006493Abstract: Provided is a production method of a lipophilic bioactive substance, which includes mixing an aqueous suspension of a microbial cell containing the lipophilic bioactive substance or a microbial cell homogenate thereof and an organic solvent in the presence of a particular surfactant, and extracting the lipophilic bioactive substance into the organic solvent phase. This production method enables extraction without using special dehydrating, drying facility, and without causing a decrease in the yield due to degraded separability between solvent and fungus body component, as well as efficient industrial production.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Kento Kanaya, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Akihisa Kanda, Kazuya Yokoe
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Publication number: 20140179657Abstract: The present invention provides an efficient method for industrially producing a naturally-derived carotenoid composition with a large amount of a carotenoid such as astaxanthin from a culture of a yeast of the genus Xanthophyllomyces without requiring any special extraction equipment and any complicated refinement process and without any need for organic solvents harmful to humans. Provided is a method for producing a carotenoid composition, including the steps of washing a carotenoid-containing yeast of the genus Xanthophyllomyces with an organic solvent (A) at 30° C. or lower, and extracting a carotenoid from the washed yeast with an organic solvent (B) at 10° C. to 70° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Kanaya, Koichi Kinoshita, Masaru Hirano
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Patent number: 8568779Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a production method capable of industrially and producing coenzyme Q10 particles having a high content and superior powder flowability characteristics by simple facility and convenient operations. The present invention provides a method of producing coenzyme Q10 particles, including mixing coenzyme Q10 and a poor solvent by stirring at a temperature not less than the melting point of coenzyme Q10, dispersing coenzyme Q10 into the form of oil droplets, and cooling them to a solidification temperature of coenzyme Q10 or below while stirring the dispersion to give solid particles, wherein the poor solvent is an aqueous solution comprising an organic solvent and/or a surfactant having an HLB of 6 or above. According to the production method of the present invention, coenzyme Q10 particles markedly superior in powder characteristics, and having, for example, a powder flowability index of not less than 80 can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2008Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Kento Kanaya, Shiro Kitamura, Takahiro Ueda
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Publication number: 20130225868Abstract: Provided is a production method of a lipophilic bioactive substance, which includes mixing an aqueous suspension of a microbial cell containing the lipophilic bioactive substance or a microbial cell homogenate thereof and an organic solvent in the presence of a particular surfactant, and extracting the lipophilic bioactive substance into the organic solvent phase. This production method enables extraction without using special dehydrating, drying facility, and without causing a decrease in the yield due to degraded separability between solvent and fungus body component, as well as efficient industrial production.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Kento Kanaya, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Akihisa Kanda, Kazuya Yokoe
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Patent number: 8496968Abstract: A method for production of fine microcapsules which encapsulate a hydrophilic bioactive substance at a high content and can be used in wide range of applications such as foods and medical drugs, which method enabling efficient industrial production, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Kento Kanaya, Masao Sato, Akihisa Kanda
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Publication number: 20130172538Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a method for easily producing a porous cellulose particle which can be used as an adsorbent for various substances in a safe manner without using a highly toxic solvent such as a calcium thiocyanate solution. In addition, the objective of the present invention is to provide a porous particle produced by the production method, an adsorbent which contains the porous particle and by which a highly pure protein can be efficiently purified in a safe manner, and a method for purifying a protein by using the adsorbent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Masaru Hirano, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Kento Kanaya, Akihisa Kanda, Takuma Suzuki, Yoshikazu Kawai, Ken-Ichiro Morio
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Publication number: 20130071525Abstract: A particulate composition, wherein a hydrophilic substance is polydispersed in a matrix of a fat composition having a solid fat content at 25 C of 58% or more and a solid fat content at 37 C of 90% or less; and a coating fat composition containing 45% by weight or more of a triglyceride comprising at least both a saturated fatty acid having 6 to 12 carbon atoms and a saturated fatty acid having 14 or more carbon atoms as constituent fatty acids, wherein the proportion of the saturated fatty acid having 14 or more carbon atoms in the constituent fatty acids of the whole fat exceeds 50% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Kanaya, Masayuki Abe, Akio Sakaki, Masao Sato
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Publication number: 20110091553Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for production of fine microcapsules which encapsulate a hydrophilic bioactive substance at a high content and can be used in wide range of applications such as foods and medical drugs, which method enabling efficient industrial production.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Kanaya, Masao Sato
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Publication number: 20100297222Abstract: A method for production of fine microcapsules which encapsulate a hydrophilic bioactive substance at a high content and can be used in wide range of applications such as foods and medical drugs, which method enabling efficient industrial production, is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Kento Kanaya, Masao ` Sato, Akihisa Kanda
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Publication number: 20100004473Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a production method capable of industrially and producing coenzyme Q10 particles having a high content and superior powder flowability characteristics by simple facility and convenient operations. The present invention provides a method of producing coenzyme Q10 particles, including mixing coenzyme Q10 and a poor solvent by stirring at a temperature not less than the melting point of coenzyme Q10, dispersing coenzyme Q10 into the form of oil droplets, and cooling them to a solidification temperature of coenzyme Q10 or below while stirring the dispersion to give solid particles, wherein the poor solvent is an aqueous solution comprising an organic solvent and/or a surfactant having an HLB of 6 or above. According to the production method of the present invention, coenzyme Q10 particles markedly superior in powder characteristics, and having, for example, a powder flowability index of not less than 80 can be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2008Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kento Kanaya, Shiro Kitamura, Takahiro Ueda