Patents by Inventor Koichi Kataura

Koichi Kataura 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).

  • Patent number: 5873943
    Abstract: To provide an economically advantageous process for manufacturing crystalline maltitol and crystalline mixture solid containing crystalline maltitol. The process of this invention uses the syrup having a maltose purity of 81 to 90% as the starting material. The syrup is hydrogenated under the existence of catalyst, and then subjected to a chromatographic separation by using cation-exchange resin, resulting in an aqueous solution of maltitol having a maltitol purity of 94 to 99.9%. The aqueous solution, is further crystallized in the presence of a seed crystal, subjected to a separation, cooled and kneaded so as to manufacture both crystalline maltitol and crystalline mixture solid containing crystalline maltitol at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Towa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Magara, Koichi Kataura, Yoshiaki Tateno, Yoshimasa Onuki, Yuji Osada, Fumito Yamazaki, Kazuaki Kato
  • Patent number: 5462864
    Abstract: This invention allows high-purity maltose to be manufactured both simply and economically by sequentially going through the steps of liquefaction of starch, saccharification of the resulting liquefied substance by combining with general-purpose enzymes and further saccharification with an enzyme which hydrolyzes oligosaccharides of trisaccharide or more, and also allows the economical and favorable manufacturing of maltitol, the reduced product of the above maltose, by going through an additional reduction step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Towa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Niimi, Yukari Hariu, Koichi Kataura, Yoshibumi Ishii, Kazuaki Kato
  • Patent number: 5141859
    Abstract: This invention allows high-purity maltose to be manufactured both simply and economically by sequentially going through the steps of liquefaction of starch, saccharification of the resulting liquefied substance by combining with general-purpose enzymes and further saccharification with an enzyme which hydrolyzes oligosaccharides of trisaccharide or more, and also allows the economical and favorable manufacturing of maltitol, the reduced product of the above maltose, by going through an additional reduction step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Assignee: Towa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Niimi, Yukari Hariu, Koichi Kataura, Yoshibumi Ishii, Kazuaki Kato