Patents by Inventor Akihisa Takaichi
Akihisa Takaichi 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).
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Publication number: 20110200712Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a low-calorie drink composition having a refreshing sweet taste, the composition being free of bitter taste, salty taste, astringent taste or the like that inorganic electrolyte-containing drinks generally have. The present invention provides a low-calorie drink composition containing an inorganic electrolyte, an organic acid, a Siraitia grosvenori extract, and sucralose.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihisa Takaichi
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Publication number: 20050260322Abstract: The present invention provides a gel beverage composition for comprehensive nutritional supplementation, having balanced nutrients, refreshing taste, a low pH, a soft gel form suitable for drinking/eating and the ability to retain its gel form for a long period of time. The composition is a gel which has a pH ranging from 3-4 and contains 5-20% by weight of saccharide, 0.1-5% by weight of fat, 2.5-6% by weight of protein material which does not coagulate at pH 3-4, 0.2-3% by weight of citric acid, 0.2-1.5% by weight of at least one acid component selected from the group consisting of ascorbic acid, tartaric acid, succinic acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, phosphoric acid, phytic acid, lactic acid and trisodium citrate, 0.01-0.5% by weight of an emulsifying agent, 0.1-1% by weight of agar and 65-90% by weight of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2003Publication date: November 24, 2005Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Yoshinari Watanabe, Keizaburou Hirata, Kunihiko Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20050244543Abstract: The present invention provides a gel composition for protein and calcium supplementation having a pH in the range of 3 to 4 and containing the following components: 3 to 8 wt. % of Protein or its hydrolysate that does not coagulate at pH 3 to pH 4; 0.1 to 0.5 wt. % of calcium; 0.5 to 3 wt. % of acidulant; 4 to 20 wt. % of carbohydrate; 0 to 5 wt. % of fat; 0 to 0.5 wt. % of emulsifying agent; 0.1 to 1 wt. % of agar; and 65 to 90 wt. % of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2003Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Yoshinari Watanabe, Keizaburo Hirata
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Patent number: 6750331Abstract: The present invention provides an oligosaccharide-supplying composition which contains 10 to 80% by weight of oligosaccharide, 0.3 to 10% by weight of a foaming component and 0.9 to 30% by weight of a neutralizing component and is in the form of foaming chewable tablets. The composition is highly useful in practice, has a uniform composition, excellent texture and high stability and can be easily taken.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Toshiaki Matsumoto, Takuya Kishimoto
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Publication number: 20040047962Abstract: The present invention relates to a highly nutritious baked food product having ingredients similar to conventional baked food products but having a nutritionally balanced high protein content and low fat content, with an improved level of the hardness that conventionally results from a high protein content and low fat content. The highly nutritious baked food product can be produced by baking a dough containing 10-20 wt. % of protein, 7-14 wt. % of fat and 55-81 wt. % of sugar, with trehalose contained as a sugar component in 1 to 10 wt. % relative to the total weight of the solid ingredients.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Yoshihide Azuma, Katsumi Tamura, Hisashi Hagita, Izumi Hanya
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Patent number: 6630186Abstract: The present invention provides a cochineal pigment-containing beverage comprising nigerooligosaccharide and an anti-fading method for a cochineal pigment-containing beverage comprising adding thereto nigerooligosaccharide.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Tomoo Yamada, Ryuichi Hatai, Takashi Sato
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Publication number: 20030157234Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing an acidic beverage comprising incorporating into the acidic beverage a substance effective for inhibiting the proliferation of acidophilic bacteria, such as an aqueous extract of grape seeds and the like; an acidic beverage obtained by the process wherein the proliferation of acidophilic bacteria is inhibited; and an acidophilic bacteria proliferation inhibitor to be used in acidic beverages comprising, as an active component, the above-mentioned substance effective for inhibiting the proliferation of acidophilic bacteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2002Publication date: August 21, 2003Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Yoshinari Watanabe, Rieko Ito
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Publication number: 20030129621Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for rapidly and easily detecting and identifying a harmful acidophilic bacterium mixed in a beverage or like sample. The method comprises performing PCR using a primer pair of a specific combination of nucleic acid primers each comprising the nucleotide sequence shown in one of SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 14, to detect and identify an acidophilic bacterium in a sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2002Publication date: July 10, 2003Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Yoshinari Watanabe, Izumi Hanya
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Patent number: 6251457Abstract: The present invention provides a stable preservation method of a powdered soft drink preparation, which includes adding 0.2 to 1.0% by weight of a calcium oxide and 0.02 to 2.0% by weight of a particulate silicon dioxide in the powdered soft drink preparation containing a carbohydrate and a sour agent as a main component. The powdered soft drink preparation of the present invention maintains the original powder state, color and taste, which are obtained immediately after the production, for a long period of time without causing comparatively rapid coagulation of powders, discoloration and change in taste at the time of preservation.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1996Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Oisuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Tetsuo Fukuda
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Patent number: 6037375Abstract: The invention presents a nutrient composition comprising insulin secretion promoting amino acid and food material having antioxidation action as essential ingredients.The composition of the invention is useful for feeding at the time of physical exhaustion or fatigue due to exercise, suppression of formation of radicals by promotion of respiration during exercise, and supplementing vitamins.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1997Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuichi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Okamatsu, Koji Okamura, Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Tetsuo Fukuda
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Patent number: 5919483Abstract: This invention provides an antioxidant-containing effervescent composition comprising, as essential components, 0.05 to 15% by weight of an antioxidant-containing powder, 10 to 35% by weight of sodium hydrogencarbonate and/or sodium carbonate, 10 to 70% by weight of a neutralizing agent and 30 to 55% by weight of an excipient. The antioxidant-containing effervescent composition of the invention stably contains an antioxidant and is excellent in solubility.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1996Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Toshiaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 5830523Abstract: A low-calorie beverage composition containing an inorganic electrolyte component and an organic acid component, the composition being characterized by containing a stevia extract as a sweetener amount of 2 to 15 mg per mEq/l of inorganic electrolyte cation.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1996Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Ryuichi Hatai
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Patent number: 5455235Abstract: The present invention provides a food composition for inhibiting the formation of an intestinal putrefactive product, containing lactosucrose as an effective component. This food composition is low in calorific value because the lactosucrose is indigestible, and can decrease the amount of an putrefactive product to be generated in intestines. Accordingly, this food composition effectively prevents the outbreak of a variety of cancers for which the putrefactive product might serve as a promoter.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1994Date of Patent: October 3, 1995Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Yoshihide Azuma, Yoshinari Watanabe, Toshiaki Matsumoto, Katsuya Miyata, Shuichi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Okamatsu, Megumi Kumemura
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Patent number: 5437880Abstract: The invention provides a health drink composition comprising a hardly digestible saccharide and a carotenoid as essential ingredients and particularly the above drink composition containing 1-30 g/100 ml of the hardly digestible saccharide and 0.5-30 mg/100 ml of the carotenoid.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1993Date of Patent: August 1, 1995Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Ichiro Otsuka, Ryuichi Hatai
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Patent number: 5424074Abstract: This invention provides a magnesium-added potassium-supplementing pharmaceutical composition containing 3 to 15 wt. %, as K, of a potassium-containing compound and 0.2 to 5 wt. %, as Mg, of a magnesium-containing compound in a K/Mg weight ratio of 20:1 through 1:1, and particularly a magnesium-added potassium-supplementing pharmaceutical composition in an effervescent dosage form which contains the above-mentioned ingredients, in the indicated ratio, in combination with 7 to 20 percent by weight of a blowing agent and 15 to 60 percent by weight of a neutralizing agent.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1994Date of Patent: June 13, 1995Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Koli, Hirofumi Ueno, Kyosuke Masaki, Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Toshiaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 5174987Abstract: There is described an iron containing preparation for NMR imaging comprising, as necessary ingredients, the prescribed amounts of an iron containing compound, sodium carbonate or sodium hydrogencarbonate and a neutralizing agent. This preparation is safe, easy to drink, and when taking, provides clear and accurate contrast imaging of inner organs. Further, addition of potassium carbonate to this preparation gives excellent preservation stability.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1990Date of Patent: December 29, 1992Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Toshiaki Matsumoto, Junji Nakamura, Toshio Nakamura
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Patent number: 5160728Abstract: There is described a preparation for iron supply comprising, as essential ingredients, a prescribed iron containing compound, sodium carbonate or sodium hydrogencarbonate and a neutralizing agent. This preparation is easily dissolved in water, and has a good taste so that it is agreeable to drinking, whereby sufficient amount of iron can suitably supplied to the living body. Also, there is described a preparation for iron supply or vitamin supply, to which potassium carbonate is added as a reservation stabilizing agent.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 1990Date of Patent: November 3, 1992Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Toshiaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 5087442Abstract: There is described a preparation for iron supply comprising, as essential ingredients, a prescribed iron containing compound, sodium carbonate or sodium hydrogencarbonate and a neutralizing agent. This preparation is easily dissolved in water, and has a good taste so that it is agreeable to drinking, whereby a sufficient amount of iron can be suitably supplied to the living body. Also, there is described a preparation for iron supply or vitamin supply, to which potassium carbonate is added as a preservation stabilizing agent.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1989Date of Patent: February 11, 1992Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihisa Takaichi, Toshihiko Okamoto, Toshiaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 5051270Abstract: A high protein nutritive food characterized in that the food has a protein content of 40 to 85 wt. % (based on solids) and is prepared from a dough by heating the dough at a reduced pressure until the dough is dried to a water content of not higher than about 3 wt. %. The dough is made from a protein ingredient containing vegetable protein alone or in combination with animal protein, cereal flour or potato powder and water.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1989Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Narichika Ueda, Akihisa Takaichi
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Patent number: D477230Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2002Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihisa Takaichi