Patents by Inventor Norihumi Idomoto

Norihumi Idomoto 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).

  • Production method of puffed food and puffed food dough
    Patent number: 5591471
    Abstract: A puffed food dough and method for producing a puffed food product from the dough. The dough contains soybean protein, starch and dietary fiber in a ratio by weight of from 1:0.2 to 0.8:0.01 to 0.4, respectively, and from 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of a vegetable foaming agent and from 150 to 300 parts by weight of water per 100 parts by weight in total of the soybean protein, starch, and dietary fiber. The dough does not contain a chemical leavening agent or yeast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Shichiro Niwano
    Inventors: Shichiro Niwano, Norihumi Idomoto
  • Method of manufacturing a food containing soybean protein isolate
    Patent number: 4746521
    Abstract: A puffed food product is produced by adding to 100 parts by weight of a mixture comprising a soybean protein isolate and wheat flour in a mixture ratio of 40 to 60:60 to 40 (weight ratio) a mixture containing 10 to 30 parts by weight of at least either one of egg white or whole egg and 0.2 to 3 parts by weight of an expanding agent, and heat treating the mixture by microwave radiation under air blow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Tajimaya Food Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shichiro Niwano, Norihumi Idomoto