Patents by Inventor Akiko Ichikawa
Akiko Ichikawa 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: 20230404106Abstract: A processed meat-like food containing a connective tissue-like texture imparting agent and a textured vegetable protein, and having texture closer to processed meat foods produced from meat as a main raw material; a connective tissue-like texture imparting agent capable of imparting to a processed meat-like food a texture closer to processed meat foods produced from meat as a main raw material; a method for texture improvement of a processed meat-like food containing a textured vegetable protein, where a connective tissue-like texture imparting agent is added, the method approximating the texture of a processed meat-like food to processed meat foods produced from meat as a main raw material; and a production method for a processed meat-like food, including mixing a connective tissue-like texture imparting agent and a textured vegetable protein, the method resulting in a processed meat-like food having texture closer to those of processed meat foods produced from meat.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NISSUI CORPORATIONInventors: Yu HORIUCHI, Keiko Kumazawa, Akiko Ichikawa, Nobuhiro Yokota, Kiminori Sugiyama
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Patent number: 9247758Abstract: Provided is a taste improver that improves or decreases unpleasant bitterness, astringent taste, harsh taste, bitter taste, or the like that results from potassium salts, magnesium salts, calcium salts, and ammonium salts without adversely affecting savoriness of a food or drink. The taste improver includes a vegetable extract and/or a phospholipid. In the taste improver, the aforementioned vegetable extract includes a vegetable-derived glycoside and/or glycoside aglycone. In the taste improver, the aforementioned phospholipid is phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, and/or a lyso form thereof. Arginine is further added to the aforementioned taste improver. Trehalose and/or hydrogenated starch syrup are further added to the taste improver.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Kanako Tsuchiya, Masashi Shimono, Akiko Ichikawa, Kiminori Sugiyama
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Patent number: 9243586Abstract: A ventilation outlet of a generation unit case installed outdoors and housing a generation unit including a generator and an internal combustion engine to drive the generator. The outlet comprise a maintenance box whose inside surfaces are attached with sound insulators and bored with an inlet hole at its upper portion to be communicated with an inside of the generation unit case and bored with an outlet hole at its lower portion that connects the inlet hole to exterior through a passage formed among the sound insulators. A flow guide plate is installed near the outlet hole to guide rainwater entered from outside to flow upward and a shield is installed at the passage to prevent the rainwater from flowing further upward.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Ichikawa, Atsumu Naoi, Kotaro Sugi
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Publication number: 20150125589Abstract: Provided is a taste improver that improves or decreases unpleasant bitterness, astringent taste, harsh taste, bitter taste, or the like that results from potassium salts, magnesium salts, calcium salts, and ammonium salts without adversely affecting savoriness of a food or drink. The taste improver includes a vegetable extract and/or a phospholipid. In the taste improver, the aforementioned vegetable extract includes a vegetable-derived glycoside and/or glycoside aglycone. In the taste improver, the aforementioned phospholipid is phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, and/or a lyso form thereof. Arginine is further added to the aforementioned taste improver. Trehalose and/or hydrogenated starch syrup are further added to the taste improver.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Kanako Tsuchiya, Masashi Shimono, Akiko Ichikawa, Kiminori Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8241080Abstract: An outboard engine unit having a cover halved into two. An undercover is made of a resin and halved into a left resin half and a right resin half. A lower mount cover is made of a resin and halved into a left resin half and a right resin half. The resin halves are formed so that when they are mated together, a gap is defined at a connection therebetween on a rear face side of the outboard engine unit. An elastic rubber member is filled in the gap.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Ichikawa, Koji Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20120098260Abstract: A ventilation outlet of a generation unit case installed outdoors and housing a generation unit including a generator and an internal combustion engine to drive the generator. The outlet comprise a maintenance box whose inside surfaces are attached with sound insulators and bored with an inlet hole at its upper portion to be communicated with an inside of the generation unit case and bored with an outlet hole at its lower portion that connects the inlet hole to exterior through a passage formed among the sound insulators. A flow guide plate is installed near the outlet hole to guide rainwater entered from outside to flow upward and a shield is installed at the passage to prevent the rainwater from flowing further upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiko ICHIKAWA, Atsumu NAOI, Kotaro SUGI
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Patent number: 8142245Abstract: An air intake passage system includes an external air intake port provided in a rear portion of a top cover and a passageway section projecting upwardly from the engine cover for directing taken-in external air to the engine. The top cover is provided over the engine cover with a gap therebetween such that the taken-in external air is allowed to flow into the passageway section and a water discharge section is provided between the engine cover and the top cover. Water, having entered together with external air, flows along the upper surface of the engine cover, bypasses the passageway section and is then discharged via the water discharge section.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2010Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Ichikawa, Koji Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20100285705Abstract: An air intake passage system includes an external air intake port provided in a rear portion of a top cover and a cylinder section projecting upwardly from the engine cover for directing taken-in external air to the engine. The top cover is provided over the engine cover with a gap therebetween such that the taken-in external air is allowed to flow into the cylinder section and a water discharge section is provided between the engine cover and the top cover. Water, having entered together with external air, flows along the upper surface of the engine cover, bypasses the cylinder section and is then discharged via the water discharge section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiko Ichikawa, Koji Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20100285704Abstract: An outboard engine unit having a cover halved into two. An undercover is made of a resin and halved into a left resin half and a right resin half. A lower mount cover is made of a resin and halved into a left resin half and a right resin half. The resin halves are formed so that when they are mated together, a gap is defined at a connection therebetween on a rear face side of the outboard engine unit. An elastic rubber member is filled in the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiko Ichikawa, Koji Sakamoto
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Patent number: 7473148Abstract: An outboard motor adapted to be mounted on a stern of a boat and having a propeller to propel the boat, a power source which produces rotational output, a drive unit including a vertical shaft which transmits the rotational output of the power source to the propeller through a gear mechanism, and an interlock unit which detachably interlocks the power source to the drive unit. The changeable power source includes one of an internal combustion engine, an electric motor and a combination of the engine and the motor. The interlock unit interlocks one of the engine, the motor and the combination of the engine and the motor to the drive unit as the power source for propelling the boat, thereby enabling to freely change its power source as desired in accordance with a user's current needs and purposes.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Ichikawa, Koji Yasuda, Mitsuaki Kubota
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Patent number: 7381107Abstract: In a hybrid outboard motor equipped with an internal combustion engine and electric motor as selective sources of power for driving the propeller and further provided with the first output shaft connected to the engine for transmitting its output to the propeller and the second output shaft connected to the motor for transmitting its output to the propeller, the first and second output shafts are disposed coaxially, so that the amount of space required for installing the shafts is smaller by the length of their coaxial portion relative to the prior art in which the shafts are simply connected in tandem. As a result, the size and weight of the outboard motors can be reduced, thereby enhancing its ease of operation and portability.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2006Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Ishikawa, Yoshihisa Hirose, Akiko Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7331834Abstract: An outboard motor is provided with a bar handle equipped with a throttle grip enabling push-pull operation and rotate operation by the boat operator, and one or the other of the engine and the motor is connected to the propeller in accordance with the push-pull operation of the throttle grip. Owing to this configuration, switching between the power sources can be performed using the throttle grip of the bar handle. In addition, the engine speed and motor speed are regulated in accordance with the rotating operation of the throttle grip, thereby avoiding degradation of operability and increase in outboard motor size.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Yasuda, Akiko Ichikawa, Mitsuaki Kubota
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Patent number: 7314396Abstract: In an outboard motor mounted on a stern of a boat, comprising a power source and a driven unit including a drive shaft connected to the power source and a propeller connected to the drive shaft through a gear mechanism, wherein the power source is detachably connected to the driven unit through an interlock unit, i.e., the outboard motor can be separated into a power unit housing the power source and the driven unit. Owing to this configuration, it becomes possible to provide the outboard motor that is improved in transportability or portability, can be easily mounted on a boat, and minimizes the amount of space required for storage.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuaki Kubota, Akiko Ichikawa, Koji Yasuda, Shigeo Terada
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Publication number: 20070202755Abstract: In an outboard motor adapted to be mounted on a stem of a boat and having a propeller to propel the boat, there are provided a power source which produces rotational output, a drive unit including a vertical shaft which transmits the rotational output of the power source to the propeller through a gear mechanism, and an interlock unit which detachably interlocks one of an internal combustion engine, an electric motor and a combination of the engine and the motor to the drive unit as the power source, thereby enabling to freely change its power as desired in accordance with purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Ichikawa, Koji Yasuda, Mitsuaki Kubota
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Publication number: 20070141924Abstract: An outboard motor is provided with a bar handle equipped with a throttle grip enabling push-pull operation and rotate operation by the boat operator, and one or the other of the engine and the motor is connected to the propeller in accordance with the push-pull operation of the throttle grip. Owing to this configuration, switching between the power sources can be performed using the throttle grip of the bar handle. In addition, the engine speed and motor speed are regulated in accordance with the rotating operation of the throttle grip, thereby avoiding degradation of operability and increase in outboard motor size.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Yasuda, Akiko Ichikawa, Mitsuaki Kubota
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Publication number: 20070068163Abstract: In a hybrid outboard motor equipped with an internal combustion engine and electric motor as selective sources of power for driving the propeller and further provided with the first output shaft connected to the engine for transmitting its output to the propeller and the second output shaft connected to the motor for transmitting its output to the propeller, the first and second output shafts are disposed coaxially, so that the amount of space required for installing the shafts is smaller by the length of their coaxial portion relative to the prior art in which the shafts are simply connected in tandem. As a result, the size and weight of the outboard motors can be reduced, thereby enhancing its ease of operation and portability.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Ishikawa, Yoshihisa Hirose, Akiko Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20060240723Abstract: In an outboard motor mouhted on a stern of a boat, comprising a power source and a driven unit including a drive shaft connected to the power source and a propeller connected to the drive shaft through a gear mechanism, wherein the power source is detachably connected to the driven unit through an interlock unit, i.e., the outboard motor can be separated into a power unit housing the power source and the driven unit. Owing to this configuration, it becomes possible to provide the outboard motor that is improved in transportability or portability, can be easily mounted on a boat, and minimizes the amount of space required for storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuaki Kubota, Akiko Ichikawa, Koji Yasuda, Shigeo Terada