Patents by Inventor Kazuhito Asahara

Kazuhito Asahara 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).

  • Method for dry fractionation of fats and oils
    Patent number: 5045243
    Abstract: A method for dry fractionation of a fat or oil wherein a non or less-laurin fat or oil is cooled and then fractionated into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction, said method comprising cooling the fat or oil in an apparatus having cooling means to crystallize it in a desired crystallization degree, then crushing it physically to fluidize it, and then pressing or filtering it to fractionate into the crystalline solid fraction and the liquid fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Oil Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuji Kuwabara, Hiroshi Hidaka, Kazuhito Asahara, Nobuo Sagi
  • Method for dry fractionation of fatty material
    Patent number: 4795569
    Abstract: A method for dry fractionation of a fatty material which comprises cooling the fatty material and then fractionating the material into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction, said cooling being carried out by introducing the fatty material in a fluid state into a filter chamber of a filter apparatus having pressing function and maintaining the fat material therein at a crystal deposition temperature until a predetermined amount of crystals are formed, and said fractionation being carried out by pressing the filter chamber to fractionate the fat material into the solid fraction and the liquid fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Oil Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki Higuchi, Hirokazu Maeda, Hiroshi Hidaka, Hiroshi Iwasa, Yoshitaka Ebihara, Kazuhito Asahara, Hayato Kubota