Patents by Inventor Hironaga Hashiba

Hironaga Hashiba 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).

  • Salt solution for producing soy sauce and process for producing soy sauce
    Patent number: 5814359
    Abstract: A soy sauce is produced by mixing a salt solution having a hard component concentration of not more than 20 ppm as calcium with a soy sauce koji, and subjecting the mixture to fermentation and ageing and then compressing it to obtain a crude soy sauce, and heat-treating the crude soy sauce in a plate-type exchanger, thereby the hard component decomposition on the plate surface being lowered and the frequency of washing the plate surface resulting in considerable decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Kikkoman Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Oura, Hironaga Hashiba
  • Novel variant and process for producing light colored soy sauce using such variant
    Patent number: 4722846
    Abstract: A novel variant belonging to the genus Pediococcus which does not cause fermentation of D-glucose but causes fermentation of pentose, and a process for producing a light-colored soy sauce which comprises adding the variant in the koji preparation step or in the early stage of brewing of soy sauce moromi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignee: Kikkoman Corporation
    Inventors: Keietsu Abe, Hironaga Hashiba, Kinji Uchida