Patents by Inventor Miyuki Tanaka
Miyuki Tanaka 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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Patent number: 8236769Abstract: To inhibit production of adipocytokines, in particular, adipocytokines that elicit insulin resistance and to prevent onset of pathosis caused by the insulin resistance, or improve the pathosis, the present invention provides an agent or a food or drink which contains 3-O-?-D-glucopyranosyl-4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol, or an organic solvent extract, a hot water extract or a squeezed liquid of a plant of the family Liliaceae or a fraction thereof which contains the compound as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa
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Patent number: 8101594Abstract: Compounds such as 4-methylcholest-7-en-3-ol, 4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol and 4-methylstigmast-7-en-3-ol which have an activity for improving pancreatic function are used as an active ingredient of a pancreas function improving drug and food or drink.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa, Noriko Habara, Muneo Yamada
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Patent number: 8093233Abstract: To reduce amounts of fat accumulated in abdominal cavity and to prevent or ameliorate visceral fat type obesity, considered to be a main factor of metabolic syndrome, the present invention provides an agent or a food or drink which contains a compound having a lophenol skeleton, or an organic solvent extract or a hot water extract of a Liliaceae plant, or a fraction thereof containing the compound is used as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa
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Publication number: 20110306746Abstract: A curable silicone gel composition that is of low viscosity, exhibits good fluidity, and generates a silicone gel that exhibits good resistance to external stress and thermal stress. The composition includes (A) a specific organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups within each molecule, (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having a specific branched main chain structure, containing at least three SiH groups within each molecule, and also containing at least one branch-forming unit within each molecule, and (C) a platinum-based catalyst, wherein the cured product has a penetration value of 10 to 200, and loss coefficient values at 25° C. for shear frequency values of 1 Hz and 10 Hz of 0.1 to 1.0 and 0.3 to 1.5 respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki TANAKA, Kazuyasu Sato, Tsuyoshi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20110212931Abstract: Provided is an antioxidant which is highly safe, inhibits oxidation of a biological component, in particular, a lipid, and may be used as a drug, food or drink, a food additive, an external preparation for skin, or the like. The antioxidant contains a compound selected from a cyclolanostane compound and a lophenol compound as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2009Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Kouji Nomaguchi, Tatsuya Ehara
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Publication number: 20110212910Abstract: To provide an antioxidant which is highly safe, inhibits oxidation of a biological component, in particular, a lipid, and is used as a drug, food or drink, a food additive, an external preparation for skin, or the like. The antioxidant contains 3-O-?-D-glucopyranosyl-4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2009Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: MORINAGE MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Kouji Nomaguchi, Tatsuya Ehara
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Patent number: 7947669Abstract: To inhibit production of adipocytokines, in particular, adipocytokines that elicit insulin resistance and to prevent onset of pathosis caused by the insulin resistance, or improve the pathosis, the present invention provides an agent or a food or drink which contains a compound having a cyclolanostane skeleton, or an organic solvent extract, a hot water extract of a plant of the family Liliaceae or Gramineae, or a fraction thereof which contains the compound as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa
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Publication number: 20110104314Abstract: The present invention provides: an Aloe vera extract that can be safely ingested, can be used as a material of food for preventing lifestyle diseases, contains an extremely low level of an anthraquinone (anthraquinone-based compound), and can be added to foods; and a method of producing the Aloe vera extract. A supercritical fluid extraction method can produce an Aloe vera extract containing a mixture that consists of a cyclolanostane compound and a lophenol compound in an amount of 1.0% by mass or more and having the following properties (1) and/or (2): (1) the mass mixing ratio of the cyclolanostane compound and lophenol compound is as follows: cyclolanostane compound:lophenol compound=6.3:2.7 to 5.1:4.9; and/or (2) the content of an anthraquinone-based compound is 0.001% by mass or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Muneo Yamada
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Patent number: 7851563Abstract: The invention provides a silicone gel composition comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane represented by an average composition formula (1) shown below: RaR1bSiO(4-a-b)/2??(1) (wherein, R represents an alkenyl group, R1 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group that contains no aliphatic unsaturated bonds, and a, b and a+b are numbers that satisfy specific numerical ranges), and containing at least one alkenyl group bonded to a silicon atom within each molecule, (B) a component composed of: (B-1) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by an average composition formula (2) shown below: (HR22SiO1/2)c(R32SiO)d(R4SiO3/2)e??(2) (wherein, R2, R3 and R4 represent monovalent hydrocarbon groups that contain no aliphatic unsaturated bonds, and c, d and e are numbers that satisfy specific numerical ranges, provided that c+d+e=1), containing at least three hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms within each molecule, and containing at least two (R4SiO3/2) units within each molecule, and (B-2) an organohydrogenpolType: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Kazuyasu Sato
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Patent number: 7846905Abstract: To reduce amounts of fat accumulated in abdominal cavity and to prevent or ameliorate visceral fat type obesity considered to be a main factor of metabolic syndrome, there is provided an agent or a food or drink, including as an active ingredient 3-O-?-D-glucopyranosyl-4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol, an organic solvent extract, a hot water extract, a squeezed liquid of a Liliaceae plant or a fraction thereof which contains the compound.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa
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Publication number: 20100286104Abstract: To reduce amounts of fat accumulated in abdominal cavity and to prevent or ameliorate visceral fat type obesity, considered to be a main factor of metabolic syndrome, the present invention provides an agent or a food or drink which contains a compound having a lophenol skeleton, or an organic solvent extract or a hot water extract of a Liliaceae plant, or a fraction thereof containing the compound as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa
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Patent number: 7829648Abstract: Provided is a silicone gel composition including (A) an organopolysiloxane containing at least one alkenyl group bonded to a silicon atom within each molecule, represented by an average composition formula: RaR1bSiO(4-a-b)/2 (wherein, each R group represents, independently, an alkenyl group, each R1 group represents, independently, an unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group that contains no aliphatic unsaturated bonds, a represents a positive number from 0.0001 to 0.2, b represents a positive number from 1.7 to 2.2, and a+b represents a number within a range from 1.9 to 2.4), (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing at least two hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms within each molecule, and (C) a platinum-based catalyst. Also provided is the silicone gel composition stated above, in which a penetration value of a cured product of this composition, as defined in JIS K2220, is within a range from 20 to 200.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2005Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Kazuyasu Sato
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Patent number: 7812012Abstract: To reduce amounts of fat accumulated in abdominal cavity and to prevent or ameliorate visceral fat type obesity, considered to be a main factor of metabolic syndrome, the present invention provides an agent or a food or drink which contains a compound having a lophenol skeleton, or an organic solvent extract or a hot water extract of a Liliaceae plant, or a fraction thereof containing the compound is used as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa
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Publication number: 20100240632Abstract: A compound having a hyperglycemia improving effect and a hemoglobin A1c lowering action such as 4-methylcholest-7-en-3-ol, 4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol and 4-methylstigmast-7-en-3-ol is used as an active ingredient of a drug or food or drink for improving hyperglycemia.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuuichi Higuchi, Masanori Inagaki, Hirotoshi Hayasawa, Muneo Yamada, Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa, Noriko Wakimoto, Yousuke Itou
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Patent number: 7754704Abstract: A compound having a hyperglycemia improving effect and a hemoglobin A1c lowering action such as 4-methylcholest-7-en-3-ol, 4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol and 4-methylstigmast-7-en-3-ol is used as an active ingredient of a drug or food or drink for improving hyperglycemia.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuuichi Higuchi, Masanori Inagaki, Hirotoshi Hayasawa, Muneo Yamada, Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa, Noriko Wakimoto, Yousuke Itou
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Patent number: 7741412Abstract: A curable organopolysiloxane composition is provided, which includes (A) an organopolysiloxane containing at least one silicon atom-bonded alkenyl group within each molecule, (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane, which contains, within each molecule, at least one silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atom at a molecular chain terminal, and at least two silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms at non-terminal positions within the molecular chain, and which satisfies the formula shown below: 0<?/?0.25 (wherein, ? represents the number of silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms at non-terminal positions within the molecular chain, and ? represents the total number of silicon atoms within the component (B)), in sufficient quantity to provide from 0.1 to 5 silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms per silicon atom-bonded alkenyl group within the component (A), and (C) a platinum-based catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2005Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Kazuyasu Sato
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Patent number: 7706488Abstract: A synchronization pulse representing a symbol boundary in a signal such as an OFDM signal is obtained by deriving a first signal representing the difference between the amplitudes of samples separated by the useful part of an OFDM symbol, a second signal representing the phase difference between the samples, and combining the first and second signals to derive a resultant signal. The resultant signal is examined and the synchronization pulse generated in response to the signal changing in a predetermined manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2004Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nongji Chen, Robert Heaton, Miyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 7674784Abstract: A compound having a cyclolanostane skeleton such as 9,19-cyclolanostan-3-ol and 24-methylene-9,19-cyclolanostan-3-ol is used as an active ingredient of a drug or food or drink for improving hyperglycemia.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuuichi Higuchi, Masanori Inagaki, Hirotoshi Hayasawa, Muneo Yamada, Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa, Noriko Wakimoto, Yousuke Itou
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Publication number: 20100035851Abstract: To inhibit production of adipocytokines, in particular, adipocytokines that elicit insulin resistance and to prevent onset of pathosis caused by the insulin resistance, or improve the pathosis, the present invention provides an agent or a food or drink which contains a compound having a cyclolanostane skeleton, or an organic solvent extract, a hot water extract of a plant of the family Liliaceae or Gramineae, or a fraction thereof which contains the compound as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., LtdInventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misawa
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Publication number: 20090312275Abstract: To inhibit production of adipocytokines, in particular, adipocytokines that elicit insulin resistance and to prevent onset of pathosis caused by the insulin resistance, or improve the pathosis, the present invention provides an agent or a food or drink which contains 3-O-?-D-glucopyranosyl-4-methylergost-7-en-3-ol, or an organic solvent extract, a hot water extract or a squeezed liquid of a plant of the family Liliaceae or a fraction thereof which contains the compound as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miyuki Tanaka, Eriko Misaka