Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
  • Patent number: 12202650
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a synthetic resin cap of a structure that is further improved in convenience when drinking while suppressing falling or loss of the cap when a container is opened. [Solving Means] A synthetic resin cap as a specific example of the present invention has a tamper-evident band to be fitted on an outer peripheral surface of a container mouth portion of a container, and a cap main body having a skirt wall and a top plate, and including, in the skirt wall, a fixing rib coupled with the tamper-evident band via a weakened portion and a strap portion and extending to a radially outer side of the skirt wall. The fixing rib is formed from a first inclined portion that flares downwards, and a protrusion portion that is disposed below the first inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shinji Omori, Masaharu Ezaki, Reiko Kohara
  • Patent number: 12186350
    Abstract: An activator suitable for immune response in tumor immunotherapy using an immune checkpoint inhibitor. An agent suitable for potentiating an antitumor effect of an immune checkpoint inhibitor, may contain a probiotic and a prebiotic as active ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kangawa, Takashi Nojiri, Motofumi Kumazoe, Yasutake Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Shishido, Takashi Asahara, Takahito Miura, Keisuke Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 12188006
    Abstract: Provided is a novel technique for reducing damage and death of microbial cells through a method for producing highly viable dried microbial cells, the method being characterized by subjecting dried microbial cells to an alternating temperature treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Miida, Yuzuru Makino, Akihisa Matsui, Masahiko Ito, Yasuhiro Moteki
  • Publication number: 20240408154
    Abstract: Provided is an enhancer of number of TCR clones containing live lactic acid bacteria as an active ingredient. Provided is an enhancer of number of TCR clones, containing live lactic acid bacteria as an active ingredient, wherein after vaccination with CD4 carrying TRBV19 such as vaccination with IEV or a virus carrying an epitope recognized by CD8 positive T cells, the number of TCR clones carrying TRBV19 is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Ayaka MAKI, Tomoaki NAITO, Saya TAJIMA, Tetsuji HORI, Satoshi MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 12085542
    Abstract: For providing a method capable of physically and objectively evaluating the consistency and state of a stool, provided is a method for measuring a stool consistency with a texture analyzer provided with a probe, the probe having a shape capable of measuring a consistency of a stool in a liquid form and in a solid form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Takuya Akiyama, Kazunori Matsuda, Junji Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20240247298
    Abstract: A method for detecting live lactic acid bacteria with carbohydrate metabolism activity contained in a lactic acid bacteria-containing beverage or food includes adding a reagent that exhibits fluorescence when degraded by an esterase and a reagent for determining cell membrane damage to a lactic acid bacteria-containing beverage or food; adjusting a hexose having an aldehyde group contained in the lactic acid bacteria-containing beverage or food to 0.01 mM or more; and detecting lactic acid bacteria that excrete a fluorescent substance and have no cell membrane damage from the lactic acid bacteria-containing beverage or food.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KUBOTA, Masaki SERATA, Takekazu OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240027340
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a camera, light sources, an optical bandpass filter, and a conversion unit. The camera includes an image sensor including a N-band color filter (where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 3). The M types of light sources (where M is a natural number that satisfies 2?M?N) have the emission spectral characteristics of having respective peaks in mutually different wavelength ranges within a visible light range and a near-infrared range. The conversion unit generates image signals of M bands each having spectral sensitivity to the corresponding one of the mutually different wavelength ranges by performing a matrix operation on an N-band imaging signal obtained by the image sensor when an article is photographed with the camera. The light application direction and the emission intensity are individually selected for each of the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA N-TECH, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, TOHOSHOJI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Watanabe, Hideki Ota, Kunimitsu Toyoshima
  • Publication number: 20240002900
    Abstract: Provided is a method for simply and efficiently collecting microorganisms in fermented milk without affecting the state of cells. A method for collecting microorganisms from a specimen containing fermented milk includes, in this order, steps of: (a) diluting the specimen with a buffer solution such that a protein concentration is 3 mg/mL or less; (b) performing centrifugation; and (c) washing and collecting the microorganisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Kosuke KATO, Madoka NAKAMURA, Takekazu OKUMURA, Kan SHIDA
  • Patent number: 11857584
    Abstract: Provided is antitumor therapy using oncolytic viruses which exhibits an excellent antitumor effect and has reduced adverse effects. An antitumor agent, comprising a combination of an oncolytic virus and an anticancer agent selected from the group consisting of oxaliplatin, an anticancer plant alkaloid, and an antimetabolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Hisanobu Ogata, Kenzaburo Tani
  • Patent number: 11834695
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for simply diagnosing the progress of disease condition of a Parkinson's disease patient. Provided are a method for determining Parkinson's disease using the number of one or more intestinal bacteria selected from the group consisting of Bifidobacterium, Bacteroides fragilis group, Lactobacillus brevis, and Lactobacillus plantarum subgroup and/or the total number of intestinal bacteria as a marker, and a method for determining Parkinson's disease using the blood LPS level and/or the blood LBP level of a Parkinson's disease patient as an indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hirokazu Tsuji, Takashi Asahara, Koji Nomoto, Masaaki Hirayama, Kinji Ohno
  • Publication number: 20230334649
    Abstract: A print inspection device includes a camera that captures a character printed on an inspection target, a shape matching processor, a deformation pattern generator, and an inspection processor. The shape matching processor checks a shape of a captured character pattern included in a captured image obtained by the camera against a shape of a preset reference character pattern while changing a deformation degree of the shape of the reference character pattern and searches for a matched character. The deformation pattern generator generates a deformed character pattern obtained by deforming the reference character pattern at the deformation degree to which the character is matched in the shape matching process. The inspection processor inspects whether a printed state of the character is satisfactory from a result of the comparison between the deformed character pattern and the captured character pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA N-TECH, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, TOHOSHOJI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shenglan Li, Kazumi Banno, Masaki Nagase, Hideki Ota, Kunimitsu Toyoshima
  • Patent number: 11718841
    Abstract: Provided is a method for improving the production amount of a tri- or higher galactooligosaccharide and the reaction rate by a method for producing a galactooligosaccharide characterized by allowing ?-galactosidase to react with a substrate in the presence of 5 to 60 mM sodium ions and 0.5 to 8 mM magnesium ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Masakazu Ikeda, Masahiko Ito
  • Patent number: 11655493
    Abstract: A marker for determining a mental disease is provided. The marker can be used in an objective diagnosis of such a mental disease. The marker contains one or more enterobacteria of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, Lactobacillus brevis, Lactobacillus reuteri subgroup, Lactobacillus sakei subgroup, Atopobium cluster, Bacteroides fragilis group, Enterococcus, Clostridium coccoides group, Clostridium leptum subgroup, Staphylococcus, Clostridium perfringens, and Enterobacteriaceae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: NATIONAL CENTER OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kunugi, Emiko Aizawa, Hirokazu Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11644458
    Abstract: A method is shown for preparing a specimen for extensively analyzing a resident skin bacterium and/or a substance present in the stratum corneum, such as a protein or a lipid, or observing the shape of the stratum corneum. A method for preparing a specimen for analyzing a resident skin bacterium and/or a substance present m the stratum corneum or observing the shape of the stratum, includes applying a solution containing a polyvinyl alcohol polymer to the skin so as to form a thin-film and peeling and collecting the formed thin-film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Niwa, Akemi Imaoka, Naoki Izawa, Yasuyuki Takahashi, Miyuki Kudo
  • Publication number: 20230119275
    Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition suitable for administration of anticancer drugs into lymph nodes by means of lymphatic drug delivery systems. A pharmaceutical composition for therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of cancer to be administered into lymph nodes, comprising at least one anticancer drug selected from the group consisting of antimetabolites and anticancer plant alkaloids as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya KODAMA, Shiro MORI, Go NOHARA
  • Patent number: 11566017
    Abstract: Provided is a cell proliferation inhibitor comprising a compound of the formula (1) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof: wherein J1 and J2 each represent CH or N, with the proviso that J1 and J2 are not simultaneously CH; r represents 0 to 4; each R101 is the same or different when r is 2 or more, and R101 represents a C1-6 alkyl group optionally substituted with a halogen atom or the like; s represents 0 to 5; each R102 is the same or different when s is 2 or more, and R102 represents a halogen atom or the like; R103 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group, a C3-6 cycloalkyl group, or a C3-6 cycloalkyl C1-6 alkyl group; and R101 and R103 are optionally linked together to form a five- to seven-membered ring hetero ring when R101 is present at the 8-position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: RIKEN, JAPANESE FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Minoru Yoshida, Hiroyuki Seimiya, Yoko Yashiroda, Kenichi Washizuka, Fumiyuki Shirai, Nobuko Yoshimoto, Junichi Kazami
  • Patent number: 11559526
    Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition suitable for administration of anticancer drugs into lymph nodes by means of lymphatic drug delivery systems. A pharmaceutical composition for therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of cancer to be administered into lymph nodes, comprising at least one anticancer drug selected from the group consisting of antimetabolites and anticancer plant alkaloids as an active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kodama, Shiro Mori, Go Nohara
  • Publication number: 20220386637
    Abstract: Using a method for producing fermented milk containing an oligosaccharide and a lactic acid bacterium as a living bacterium that cultures the lactic acid bacterium in a medium containing the oligosaccharide and fermented milk produced by the production method, a high viable bacterial count can be maintained even during long-term preservation in the fermented milk containing the oligosaccharide and the lactic acid bacterium as a living bacterium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Maiko NAKAMORI, Shiori IGARASHI, Daichi NIHEI
  • Patent number: 11499138
    Abstract: Provided is a method for efficiently manufacturing high-purity peripheral nerve cells from undifferentiated cells. The method for manufacturing peripheral nerve cells from undifferentiated cells having an ability to differentiate into peripheral nerve cells includes the following steps (a) and (b): (a) culturing undifferentiated cells having an ability to differentiate into peripheral nerve cells to induce differentiation into neural progenitor cells without detaching a grown colony from a culture vessel; and (b) detaching the neural progenitor cells produced in the step (a) from the culture vessel, then seeding the cells at a seeding density of 2×105 to 6×105 cells/cm2 to a culture vessel, and culturing the cells for 14 to 42 days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GUNMA UNIVERSITY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Nishiyama, Susumu Rokudai, Shinji Yoshiyama, Hiroyuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220356439
    Abstract: Provided a method for promoting growth of bacteria of the genus Bifidobacterium. The method for promoting growth of bacteria of the genus Bifidobacterium includes subjecting a milk culture medium containing one or more selected from the group consisting of cysteine, cystine, and a salt thereof to heat treatment and then culturing bacteria of the genus Bifidobacterium in the milk culture medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA
    Inventors: Kosuke KATO, Kaoru TOCHIYA, Takekazu OKUMURA