Patents by Inventor Kiyohiro Shimada

Kiyohiro Shimada 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).

  • Production of foods and drinks containing bifidobacteria
    Patent number: 4298619
    Abstract: Foods and drinks containing bifidobacteria are produced by inoculating and cultivating bifidobacteria or a mixture of bifidobacteria and lactic acid bacteria in a medium containing .alpha.-starch-transformed rice and bifidobacteria-fermentable sugars, and processing the resultant cultivated medium to produce foods and drinks containing bifidobacteria. The .alpha.-starch-transformed rice is produced by cooking rice. The medium for cultivating bifidobacteria may contain milk, and cultivating may be carried out under aerobic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1981
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
    Inventors: Masahiko Mutai, Mitsuo Mada, Kiyohiro Shimada
  • Method for producing foods and drinks containing bifidobacteria
    Patent number: 4187321
    Abstract: Foods and drinks containing bifidobacteria are prepared by growing in a milk medium under aerobic conditions a mixture of bifidobacteria containing a mutant strain of oxygen-resistant Bifidobacterium and a strain of obligatory anaerobic Bifidobacterium. Presence of the oxygen-resistant strain enables growing the obligatory anaerobic strain under aerobic conditions in a pure milk medium without added growth promoting substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
    Inventors: Masahiko Mutai, Mitsuo Mada, Kiyohiro Shimada
  • Fermented milk product containing viable bifidobacteria
    Patent number: 4091117
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing fermented milk containing viable bifidobacteria by cultivating a variant of bifidobacteria in a milk medium, characterized in that the variant of bifidobacteria is acid-resistant and can be propagated under an aerobic condition in a pure milk medium which does not contain any growth-promoting substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1978
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
    Inventors: Masahiko Mutai, Mitsuo Mada, Kei Nakajima, Shusei Takahashi, Takashi Nakao, Kiyohiro Shimada, Takashi Iijima
  • Fermented milk containing viable bifidobacteria
    Patent number: 4087559
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing fermented milk containing viable bifidobacteria by cultivating a variant of bifidobacteria in a milk medium, characterized in that the variant of bifidobacteria can be propagated under aerobic condition in a pure milk medium which does not contain any growth-promoting substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
    Inventors: Masahiko Mutai, Mitsuo Mada, Kei Nakajima, Kiyohiro Shimada, Takashi Iijima