Patents Assigned to Morinaga & Co.
  • Method for heat treating brown rice
    Patent number: 4582713
    Abstract: A process for treating brown rice to obtain readily cookable brown rice having fissures in its bran layer, which process comprises developing fissures by heating the brown rice by blowing heated air to the brown rice and thereafter immediately cooling the heated rice, said heating being controlled according to the quantity of heat energy absorbed by the treated brown rice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1986
    Assignees: Morinaga & Co., Shokuhin Sangyo Center
    Inventors: Tadahiko Hirokawa, Katsumoto Oki, Yoh Kumagai, Hajime Sasaki