Patents Assigned to Korea Food Research Institute
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Patent number: 10036073Abstract: The present invention relates to a slide chip for a sensor for detection of food-borne bacteria and a fabrication method thereof. More particularly, the invention relates to a slide chip for a sensor for detection of food-borne bacteria and a fabrication method thereof, the slide chip comprising: a substrate coated with a metal; a linker having a substituent which may be bonded to the metal and is located at the 5? end of deoxythymidine (dT); and a food-borne bacterium-derived RNA aptamer that is bound to the linker by the 3?-end poly A tail. The slide chip makes it possible to detect food-borne bacteria in a rapid and accurate manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Young Jin Cho, Chul Jin Kim, Nam Soo Kim, Chong Tai Kim, Jin Soo Maeng, Tae Eun Kim, Myung Hyun Lee
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Patent number: 10016475Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for preventing, improving, or treating Th1-mediated immune diseases or Th2-mediated immune diseases, an antihistamine composition, and an anti-inflammatory composition. The present invention provides a method for preventing, improving, or treating Th1-mediated immune diseases or Th2-mediated immune diseases, a method for inhibiting the release of histamine, and a method for preventing, improving, or treating inflammatory disorders. The composition according to the present invention has excellent inhibitory activities for IL-4 generation, the degranulation of mast cells, COX-2, 15-NOX, and the passing of allergens from through an intestinal epithelial cell layer, or an excellent Treg cell inducing activity.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Dong-Hwa Shon, Hee-Soon Shin, Min-Jung Bae, Ok-Hee Chai, Chang-Yuil Kang, Dae-Woon Choi, Gye-Young Choi, Jeong-Hae Rho, Jeong-Ryong Do
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Patent number: 9993017Abstract: A composition for enhancing sweetness includes glycan or glycopeptide derived from soy sauce. The composition has excellent sweetness enhancing properties, and particularly has a sweetening effect nearly the same as or better than those of conventional sweeteners and less calories in terms of nutritional characteristics. A sweetener composition includes the composition for enhancing sweetness and a sweetener. A food includes the composition for enhancing sweetness. A method for enhancing sweetness of a food, includes applying the sweetness enhancer composition to the food. The sweetness enhancer of the present invention is a natural product-derived substance, and contains, as an active ingredient, peptide separated from Korean traditional soy sauce aged over a long period of time, and therefore, may solve problems of conventional chemosynthesized sweetness enhancers, for example, side effects, foul taste or the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2012Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Mee Ra Rhyu, Hee Jin Son, Yi Seul Kim, Min Jung Kim, Myung Ji Jung
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Publication number: 20180059409Abstract: A polygon mirror assembly includes: a body including a coupled unit coupled to a shaft that is rotated; a plurality of first frames extended in a direction distant from the coupled unit; a plurality of reflection surfaces disposed between the first frames to form a polygon and rotatably coupled to the first frames; and driving units tilting the reflection surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2016Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sung Wook CHOI, Min Ah WOO, Na Ri LEE, Hyun Joo CHANG, Gyeong Sik OK
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Patent number: 9898636Abstract: A wrapper for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and an electric field enhancement structure that enhances an electric field by reacting with a predetermined frequency band of terahertz waves passing through the terahertz wave transmission layer. An optical identification device for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes m identification units composed of: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and a waveguide grating that resonates at a natural resonant frequency when receiving the transmitted terahertz wave, in which the natural resonant frequency is any one of a first natural resonant frequency to an n-th natural resonant frequency.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sung Wook Choi, Hyun Jung Kim, Na Ri Lee, Hyun Joo Chang, Gyeong Sik Ok
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Patent number: 9833462Abstract: A persimmon leaf-derived polysaccharide fraction, a preparation method thereof, and use thereof, the persimmon leaf-derived polysaccharide fraction including, based on the total weight of the polysaccharide fraction, 70-90 wt % of neutral sugar and 10-30 wt % of uronic acid.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Hee-Do Hong, Young-Chul Lee, Young-Chan Kim, Kyung-Tack Kim, Sang-Yoon Choi, Young-Kyung Lee, Chang-Won Cho, Jeonghae Rho, Su-Kyung Sung, Kwang-Soon Shin, Hye-Ryung Park, Sun Young Jo
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Patent number: 9752926Abstract: A scanning module including first path shifting unit changing a path of an incident electromagnetic wave from a light source; a first driving unit adjusting the path of the electromagnetic wave by moving the first path shifting unit; and a Bessel beam generating unit making a Bessel beam on a portion of an object, using the electromagnetic wave with the path changed by the path shifting unit. A detection probe which includes a light source generating an electromagnetic wave; a path shifting unit changing a path of an electromagnetic wave from a light source; a Bessel beam generating unit making a Bessel beam on a portion of an object, using the electromagnetic wave with the path changed by the path shifting unit; a detecting unit detecting intensity of a wave from the object, and a housing accommodating the light source, path shifting unit, Bessel beam generating unit, and detecting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Korea Food Research InstituteInventors: Sung Wook Choi, Hyun Jung Kim, Na Ri Lee, Hyun Joo Chang, Gyeong Sik Ok
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Patent number: 9724361Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating liver diseases, containing a narirutin extract of citrus peel extract or narirutin as an active ingredient. The extract or narirutin decreases cholesterol levels and fat levels in liver tissue, and thus can be utilized as a composition or food for preventing and treating liver diseases. In addition, the present invention relates to a method for extracting narirutin from citrus peel, and a method for preparing citrus fermented milk using the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Korea Food Research InstituteInventors: In Wook Choi, Yong Kon Park, Yoon Sook Kim, Hee Don Choi, Ho Young Park
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Patent number: 9518749Abstract: Provided is a forced evaporative humidifier using nano-vapor, which includes: a housing having an exhaust port formed in an upper surface thereof and a suction port formed at one side of a front surface thereof; a water tank located below the suction port to store water; an injection unit having an injection nozzle located above the suction port, a pump for pulling up the water in the water tank to the injection nozzle, and a transfer tube for transferring the water pulled by the pump; a blowing fan located above the injection nozzle to carry air toward the exhaust port of the housing; a humidifying unit located below the injection nozzle so that films, each having a body surface formed to allow the water injected from the injection nozzle to flow and a plurality of tube-type spacers protruding on the body surface, are stacked in a lateral direction therein; and an eliminator located between the blowing fan and the injection nozzle to prevent water drops included in a humid air humidified by the humidifying uType: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Byeong Sam Kim, Ji Young Kim, Jong Hoon Kim, Ki Hyun Kwon, Hwan Soo Cha
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Publication number: 20160259959Abstract: A wrapper for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and an electric field enhancement structure that enhances an electric field by reacting with a predetermined frequency band of terahertz waves passing through the terahertz wave transmission layer. An optical identification device for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes m identification units composed of: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and a waveguide grating that resonates at a natural resonant frequency when receiving the transmitted terahertz wave, in which the natural resonant frequency is any one of a first natural resonant frequency to an n-th natural resonant frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: September 8, 2016Applicant: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sung Wook CHOI, Hyun Jung KIM, Na Ri LEE, Hyun Joo CHANG, Gyeong Sik OK
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Publication number: 20160167861Abstract: A wrapper for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and an electric field enhancement structure that enhances an electric field by reacting with a predetermined frequency band of terahertz waves passing through the terahertz wave transmission layer. An optical identification device for a terahertz wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes m identification units composed of: a terahertz wave transmission layer that is made of a material that transmits a terahertz wave; and a waveguide grating that resonates at a natural resonant frequency when receiving the transmitted terahertz wave, in which the natural resonant frequency is any one of a first natural resonant frequency to an n-th natural resonant frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Sung Wook CHOI, Hyun Jung KIM, Na Ri LEE, Hyun Joo CHANG, Gyeong Sik OK
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Patent number: 9346054Abstract: Disclosed is a non-contact heating type gene amplification system. The non-contact heating type gene amplification system includes separate light sources for each step of a polymerase chain reaction in order to perform a high-speed temperature cycle by moving a rotation unit, in which a plurality of sample chambers are formed, to places at which the sample chambers are controlled at the temperatures corresponding to each step.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2010Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Hyang Sook Chun, Sung Wook Choi, Na Ri Lee, Hyun Joo Chang
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Patent number: 9301989Abstract: A coniferyl alcohol or a Compositae family, Brassicaceae family, Umbelliferae family, Lamiaceae family, Liliaceae family or Amaranthaceae plant extract provides various uses associated with hTRPA1 activation, and, being a natural compound, involves relatively few side effects in the body and has substantial industrial applicability. The coniferyl alcohol or the Compositae family, Brassicaceae family, Umbelliferae family, Lamiaceae family, Liliaceae family or Amaranthaceae plant extract of the present invention not only will be a novel medical or food raw material which is helpful in maintaining homeostasis in the body associated with hTRPA1 activation, but can also be used to advantage in hTRPA1 antagonist screening.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Mee Ra Rhyu, Hee Jin Son, Yi Seul Kim, Min Jung Kim, Hye Young Kim, Jae-Ho Park
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Patent number: 9239287Abstract: An object inspection apparatus includes a terahertz wave supplying unit for generating a terahertz wave and moving a path of the terahertz wave according to time so that the terahertz wave is supplied to an object to be inspected, a focusing lens located between the terahertz wave supplying unit and the object to be inspected to focus the terahertz wave supplied by the terahertz wave supplying unit, a rotating plate having a plate shape and including a plurality of the focusing lenses with different distances from the center thereof, the rotating plate rotating in the circumferential direction so that one of the focusing lenses is located at a path of the terahertz wave according to the path movement of the terahertz wave, and a terahertz wave detecting unit for collecting and detecting a terahertz wave incident to the object to be inspected.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Hyang-Sook Chun, Sung-Wook Choi, Hyun-Joo Chang, Na-Ri Lee, Gyeong-Sik Ok
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Publication number: 20150320823Abstract: Disclosed is a use of rice, rice bran or rice hull extract as a histamine receptor antagonist. The rice, rice bran or rice hull extract may be used as a natural antihistamine to prevent or treat allergic rhinitis, inflammatory bowel disease, asthma, bronchitis, nausea, gastric and duodenal ulcer, gastroesophageal reflux disease, sleep disorder, anxiety and depression. It provides comparable or better effect of decreasing sleep latency, increasing sleep duration and increasing non-REM sleep as compared to diazepam, which is currently used as sleeping drug. Derived from the natural product rice, rice bran or rice hull, it has no side effect such as cognitive impairment, resistance or dependency even after long-term use.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Suengmok Cho, Daeseok Han, Dong-Soo Kim, Nam-In Baek, Young-Ho Jin, Jin-Kyu Han, Jae-Young Sung, In-Ho Kim, Chang-Ho Lee
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Patent number: 9087333Abstract: Disclosed is a method of monitoring food quality including (a) receiving an environmental factor value sensed during transporting by a moving sensor tag attached to a container or palette on which a plurality of food is stacked, a time value sensing the environmental factor, and food information from a distribution company server; (b) receiving an environmental factor value sensed by a fixed sale sensor tag which matches the food information stored in the moving sensor tag, a time value sensing the environmental factor, and food information from the distribution company server; (c) measuring a current quality index for each individual quality analysis item and a total quality index based on the food information sensed by the moving sensor tag and the fixed sale sensor tag, the environmental factor values, and the time values sensing the environmental factors; (d) setting price of the food based on the measured quality index for each individual quality analysis item and total quality index; and (e) transmittinType: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Korea Food Research InstituteInventors: Byeong Sam Kim, Ji Young Kim, Jong Hoon Kim, Ouiwoung Kim, Ki Hyun Kwon, Yong Kon Park, Yoon Sook Kim, Junemo Koo
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Publication number: 20150150297Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for sterilizing sealed and packaged food using atmospheric-pressure plasma and sealed and packaged food prepared thereby. The method includes: seal packaging food by injecting a gas containing 10 vol % or more of oxygen, carbon dioxide or a mixture gas thereof based on the total gas into a plastic packaging material containing the food or vacuum packing food in a plastic packaging material; and treating the packaged food with direct atmospheric-pressure plasma, thereby allowing food which cannot be heat-treated, such as fresh food, to be sterilized and allowing food to be sterilized even when polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon or polyethylene terephthalate through which plasma cannot pass is used as a food packaging material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yun Ji Kim, Seokin Hong, Ju Seong Kim, Eun Jung Lee
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Publication number: 20150118266Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for preventing, improving, or treating Th1-mediated immune diseases or Th2-mediated immune diseases, an antihistamine composition, and an anti-inflammatory composition. The present invention provides a method for preventing, improving, or treating Th1-mediated immune diseases or Th2-mediated immune diseases, a method for inhibiting the release of histamine, and a method for preventing, improving, or treating inflammatory disorders. The composition according to the present invention has excellent inhibitory activities for IL-4 generation, the degranulation of mast cells, COX-2, 15-NOX, and the passing of allergens from through an intestinal epithelial cell layer, or an excellent Treg cell inducing activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: KOREA FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Dong-Hwa Shon, Hee-Soon Shin, Min-Jung Bae, Ok-Hee Chai, Chang-Yuil Kang, Dae-Woon Choi, Gye-Young Choi, Jeong-Hae Rho, Jeong-Ryong Do
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Patent number: 9016564Abstract: A product quality monitoring system includes: an RFID tag which is attached to a first packing container in which a product is packed, and transmits atmospheric history information and an identifier for a product distribution history; a QR code which is attached to a second packing container and stores the identifier and address information of a product quality predicting server; a product distribution history DB which stores the atmospheric history information and the identifier which are received from the RFID tag; a user terminal which connects with the product quality predicting server corresponding to the address information stored in the captured QR code, and requests a quality index of the product; and the product quality predicting server which calculates the quality index of the product or a time when the product has a specific quality index, from the atmospheric history information.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Korea Food Research InstituteInventors: Byeong Sam Kim, Ji Young Kim, Jong Hoon Kim, Ouiwoung Kim, Ki Hyun Kwon, Yoon Sook Kim, Hwan Soo Cha
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Publication number: 20150068962Abstract: Provided is a forced evaporative humidifier using nano-vapor, which includes: a housing having an exhaust port formed in an upper surface thereof and a suction port formed at one side of a front surface thereof; a water tank located below the suction port to store water; an injection unit having an injection nozzle located above the suction port, a pump for pulling up the water in the water tank to the injection nozzle, and a transfer tube for transferring the water pulled by the pump; a blowing fan located above the injection nozzle to carry air toward the exhaust port of the housing; a humidifying unit located below the injection nozzle so that films, each having a body surface formed to allow the water injected from the injection nozzle to flow and a plurality of tube-type spacers protruding on the body surface, are stacked in a lateral direction therein; and an eliminator located between the blowing fan and the injection nozzle to prevent water drops included in a humid air humidified by the humidifying uType: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: Korea Food Research InstituteInventors: Byeong Sam Kim, Ji Young Kim, Jong Hoon Kim, Ki Hyun Kwon, Hwan Soo Cha