Patents Assigned to Suntory Limited
  • Composition with Preventive or Improvement Effect on Symptoms or Disesases Associted with Stress-Induced Behavior Disorders
    Publication number: 20070254954
    Abstract: A composition with a preventive or improvement effect on symptoms or diseases associated with stress-induced behavior disorders, comprising arachidonic acid and/or a compound comprising arachidonic acid as a constituent fatty acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Manabu Sakakibara, Yoshiyuki Ishikura
  • Composition having immunoregulating activities
    Patent number: 7288245
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition comprising novel lactic acid bacteria having immunoregulating activities. Specifically, the invention provides food, drinks or medicaments containing novel lactic acid bacteria separated from “Shibazuke,” one kind of traditional Kyoto pickles, and having immunoregulating activities. The lactic acid bacteria belong to Lactobacillus pentosus and have a weak assimilating activity or no assimilating activity for glycerol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Yuji Nonaka, Takayuki Izumo, Keiko Iida
  • Labeling Apparatus
    Publication number: 20070240828
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a labeling apparatus that allows a labeling operation to be carried out continuously for a long period without the need of cleaning, even if the easy-to-peel labels are used. To accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a conveying drum serving for correcting a position of a label applied with glue, while transferring the label, the conveying drum comprising a predetermined groove extending circumferentially along an outer surface of the conveying drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Ito, Toshiya Kobayashi, Mitsugu Yamada
  • Proteins having hemolytic activity and genes encoding the protein
    Patent number: 7282577
    Abstract: Hemolytic proteins offer new approaches to drug development. The hemolytic proteins are obtained from a nematocyst of Carybdea alata. Alternatively, the proteins may be recovered from cultured cells transfected with the sequence encoding the hemolytic protein of Carybdea alata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagai, Kyoko Kuroda, Terumi Nakajima
  • Method of processing green coffee beans
    Publication number: 20070190207
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of processing green coffee beans that improves the aromas and flavors of green coffee beans through simple means, allowing richly fragrant green coffee beans that have unique aromas to be obtained with ease. A method of processing green coffee beans includes a fermentation process by bringing green coffee beans, which are unground seeds from coffee berries, microorganisms, and nutritive substances that are metabolized by the microorganisms into contact with one another to cause fermentation, followed by a separation process of separating out only said green coffee beans that have passed through the fermentation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenzo Takahashi, Yoshikiyo Minami, Yoshiyuki Kanabuchi, Keiko Togami, Morio Mitsuhashi
  • Hemolytic active proteins and genes encoding the same
    Patent number: 7250491
    Abstract: Novel proteins providing the new approach to development of the drugs and pesticides with the use or application of a hemolytic activity, and novel proteins having the following properties and the genes encoding thereof are provided: (1) having hemolytic activity; (2) having a molecular weight of about 50,000 Da (determined by SDS gel electrophoresis); (3) having an amino acid sequence represented by any of SEQ ID NO 1 to SEQ ID NO 3 as a partial amino acid sequence; and (4) having an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO 5 as the full amino acid sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagai, Terumi Nakajima
  • ?-benzyloxyaspartate derivatives with amino group on benzene ring
    Patent number: 7247652
    Abstract: L-threo-?-benzyloxyaspartate derivatives having a substituent on the benzene ring, represented by the following formula (1): wherein R is hydrogen, a linear or branched lower aliphatic acyl group with the acyl portion optionally substituted, an alicyclic acyl group, an aromatic acyl group with a substituent on the aromatic ring, an amino acid-derived group or a biotin derivative-derived group, having an amino substituent on the benzene ring, and salts thereof, which can easily bind to affinity column chromatography carriers as ligands of glutamate transporter proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventor: Keiko Shimamoto
  • Agent for improving physiological motor functions
    Publication number: 20070099853
    Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for improving physiological motor functions which is characterized in containing proanthocyanidin as an effective ingredient. It is useful as an agent for preventing and improving the fatigue in which rise in lactic cid value upon physical exercise is suppressed whereby muscular fatigue is reduced and continuous exercise is made easy, and particularly as an agent for prevention and improvement of muscular fatigue, and as a health food for prevention and improvement of fatigue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Taeko Iino, Hiroaki Tanaka, Keisuke Sawaki, Natsue Koikawa, Yoshinobu Kiso
  • Method of roasted coffee beans treatment and steam-treated roasted coffee beans
    Publication number: 20070092613
    Abstract: A method of roasted coffee beans treatment capable of reducing acidity component of the roasted coffee beans, improving the extraction ratio thereof and drawing out superior flavor originating from coffee and steam treated roasted coffee beans using the method. In the method of roasted coffee beans treatment, a steam treatment is effected on the roasted coffee beans by supplying steam thereto under a flowing condition thereof. More particularly, the roasted coffee beans are accommodated in a bean accommodating portion having a steam supply passage and a steam exhaust passage and the steam treatment is effected by flowing the steam from the steam supply passage to the steam exhaust passage such that the steam is exhausted from the steam exhaust passage at an outlet pressure higher than the atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Koji Nagao, Yoshiaki Yokoo, Kenzo Takahashi
  • Process for production of hydrogen and carbonyl compounds by reacting sub- or super-critical water with alcohols
    Patent number: 7166753
    Abstract: A process for producing a carbonyl compound involves allowing water to undergo phase transition to a supercritical or subcritical state in the presence of an alcohol compound so as to produce/generate water-derived hydrogen and at the same time convert the alcohol compound into a corresponding carbonyl compound. Specifically, the process is carried out by introducing the alcohol in a reaction tube along with water and heating and/or pressurizing the mixture of the alcohol and the water to bring the water into a subcritical or supercritical state. In this manner, water-derived hydrogen is produced and the alcohol is converted to a corresponding carbonyl compound. The process is preferably carried out in an oxygen-free environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Koichi Nakahara, Kenzo Nagami, Okitsugu Kajimoto, Kazuya Kobiro
  • Microorganism secreting out lipid and process for producing the lipid and lipid balls having the lipid encapsulating therein by using the mircroorganism
    Patent number: 7157254
    Abstract: There are provided microorganisms having a property of producing a lipid containing unsaturated fatty acids as constituent fatty acids and extracellularly secreting the produced lipid encapsulated in lipid vesicles, methods of screening said microorganisms, as well as methods of efficiently producing a fatty acid-containing lipid using said microorganisms. Furthermore, there are provided lipid vesicles encapsulating a lipid containing unsaturated fatty acids, and foods, cosmetics, and animal feeds comprising said lipid vesicles added thereto. Artificially treated microorganisms or microorganisms collected from nature are grown on a solid medium, and microbial strains that form lipid vesicles at the periphery of the colonies and/or microbial strains that, when cultured in a transparent liquid medium, make the culture liquid cloudy are selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Kengo Akimoto, Hiroshi Kawashima, Sakayu Shimizu
  • DNAs coding for flavone synthesis, methods of using flavone synthase DNAS, and plants, flowers, and vectors containing flavone synthase DNAs
    Patent number: 7119252
    Abstract: A DNA encoding a flavone synthase that synthesizes flavones from flavanones, vectors containing said DNAs, and plants expressing same are disclosed. Methods of producing the protein which synthesizes flavones from flavanones, methods of altering the composition of flavonoids or the amount of flavonoids in a plant, methods of altering flower color and plant photosenstivity, and methods of controlling interactions between plants expressing the protein and microorganisms are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Masako Mizutani, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Takaaki Kusumi, Shin-ichi Ayabe, Tomoyoshi Akashi
  • DNAs coding for flavone synthase, methods of using flavone synthase DNAs, and plants, flowers, and vectors containing flavone synthase DNAs
    Patent number: 7119253
    Abstract: A DNA encoding a flavone synthase that synthesizes flavones from flavanones, vectors containing said DNAs, and plants expressing same are disclosed. Methods of producing the protein which synthesizes flavones from flavanones, methods of altering the composition of flavonoids or the amount of flavonoids in a plant, methods of altering flower color and plant photosensitivity, and methods of controlling interactions between plants expressing the protein and microorganisms are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignees: Suntory Flowers Limited, Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Masako Mizutani, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Takaaki Kusumi, Shin-ichi Ayabe, Tomoyoshi Akashi
  • Lipid-improving agent and composition containing lipid-improving agent
    Publication number: 20060217441
    Abstract: A lipid-improving agent containing a triglyceride(s) where a poly-unsaturated fatty acid is bonded to 2-position of a triglyceride(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kengo Akimoto, Harukazu Fukami, Toshinao Goda
  • Preventive or ameliorating agent for liver disease involving hepatopathy
    Publication number: 20060217442
    Abstract: To provide a preventive or ameliorating agent for liver diseases associated with hepatopathy comprising an omega-9 unsaturated fatty acid as an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ishikura, Hiroshi Kawashima, Tomohito Hamazaki, Shiro Watanabe
  • Gene encoding a protein having acyl group transfer activity
    Patent number: 7105719
    Abstract: The invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding a protein having aromatic acyltransferase activity, vectors comprising aromatic acyltransferase polynucleotides, and methods of transforming plants with anthocyanin acyltransferase polynucleotides to alter flower colors. The invention also relates to transformed host cells, plants, and flower cuts expressing proteins having anthocyanin acyltransferase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Toshihiko Ashikari, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Masahiro Nakao, Yuko Fukui, Keiko Sakakibara, Masako Mizutani, Takaaki Kusumi
  • Process for preparing fat or oil containing unsaturated fatty acid
    Patent number: 7091244
    Abstract: A process for production of unsaturated fatty acid-containing oils which is characterized by culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Mortierella subgenus Mortierella in a medium containing a nitrogen source derived from soybean, and collecting the unsaturated fatty acid-containing oil from the cultured product. The oils are obtained with a low 24,25-methylenecholest-5-en-3?-ol content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Kenichi Higashiyama, Kengo Akimoto, Sakayu Shimizu
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D529394
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventor: Asami Nagata
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D536256
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventor: Asami Nagata
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D546191
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Suntory Limited
    Inventors: Yoshio Kato, Yuichi Osumi, Kozue Asano