Abstract: A tofu production system includes: a production device configured to continuously produce tofu; a conveyance device configured to arrange the tofu produced by the production device according to a predetermined rule corresponding to the tofu and convey the tofu; a tofu inspection device configured to inspect the tofu on the conveyance device; and a sorting and removing device configured to sort or remove a defective product in the tofu being conveyed by the conveyance device based on an inspection result of the tofu inspection device.

Abstract: An inspection device for tofu products includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause a computer to execute operations. The operations include: acquiring a captured image from an image capturing device configured to capture an image of a tofu product to be inspected; and determining a quality of the tofu product indicated by the captured image using an evaluation value as output data obtained by inputting the captured image of the tofu product captured by the image capturing device as input data with respect to a learned model for determining a quality of a tofu product indicated by input data, the learned model being generated by performing machine learning using learning data including a captured image of a tofu product.

Abstract: In a continuous shaping machine for bean curds which is equipped with a pair of endless filter cloth belts that are an upper filter cloth belt and a lower filter cloth belt to circulate outside and a pair of endless conveyors that are an upper conveyor and a lower conveyor to circulate inside, and which compression-shapes curdled soymilk by conveying the curdled soymilk while sandwiching the curdled soymilk between the upper filter cloth belt and conveyor and the lower filter cloth belt and conveyor, the continuous shaping machine includes: heating units which perform heating sterilization in prescribed ranges of a return process that corresponds to regions, from a termination portion of a conveyance passage where the curdled soymilk is sandwiched to a start position of the conveyance passage, of circulation routes of the filter cloth belts.

Abstract: In a continuous shaping machine for bean curds which is equipped with a pair of endless filter cloth belts that are an upper filter cloth belt and a lower filter cloth belt to circulate outside and a pair of endless conveyors that are an upper conveyor and a lower conveyor to circulate inside, and which compression-shapes curdled soymilk by conveying the curdled soymilk while sandwiching the curdled soymilk between the upper filter cloth belt and conveyor and the lower filter cloth belt and conveyor, the continuous shaping machine includes: heating units which perform heating sterilization in prescribed ranges of a return process that corresponds to regions, from a termination portion of a conveyance passage where the curdled soymilk is sandwiched to a start position of the conveyance passage, of circulation routes of the filter cloth belts.

Abstract: A method for producing tofu coagulant includes preparing a water phase of a mineral salt coagulant solution for tofu and an oil phase of a food fat derived from plant materials, and stirring and mixing, while cooling to 50° C. or lower, at least one of the water phase and the oil phase, or cooling to 50° C. or lower immediately after emulsification of the composition stirred and mixed. The tofu coagulant with a W/O type composition is formed.

Abstract: In a continuous shaping machine for bean curds which is equipped with a pair of endless filter cloth belts that are an upper filter cloth belt and a lower filter cloth belt to circulate outside and a pair of endless conveyors that are an upper conveyor and a lower conveyor to circulate inside, and which compression-shapes curdled soymilk by conveying the curdled soymilk while sandwiching the curdled soymilk between the upper filter cloth belt and conveyor and the lower filter cloth belt and conveyor, the continuous shaping machine includes: heating units which perform heating sterilization in prescribed ranges of a return process that corresponds to regions, from a termination portion of a conveyance passage where the curdled soymilk is sandwiched to a start position of the conveyance passage, of circulation routes of the filter cloth belts.

Abstract: The apparatus is characterized by having a tubular member (4) in vertical posture; quantitative discharge means (7) capable of feeding out a solid raw material (6) at a constant rate, disposed inferiorly to the tubular member (4); and altitude control means (10) for control of the altitude of a liquid raw material (8), so that quantitative discharge is effected by placing the solid raw material (6) and the liquid raw material (8) in the tubular member (4) and, while controlling the altitude of the liquid raw material (8), feeding the mixture to the quantitative discharge means (7) by the own weight of the solid raw material (6).

Abstract: An apparatus for producing tofu coagulant includes a liquid food oil pumping pathway, a liquid food oil tank, a mineral salt solution pumping pathway, a mineral salt solution tank, a plurality of metering pumps, and an emulsion dispersion machine for stirring the liquid food oil with the mineral salt solution to an emulsification phase. The liquid food oil pumping pathway is connected with the mineral salt solution pumping pathway, the mineral salt solution is added in a predetermined ratio for producing the tofu coagulant, and the water phase and the oil phase are stirred and mixed to W/O type (water in oil type) emulsion (without emulsifier).

Abstract: A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in the outer periphery thereof with plural pores for separating via the plural pores a solid substance from a solid-liquid substance disposed outside the rollers and filtering a liquid substance toward inside the rollers, inside drums each disposed along the inner circumference of each of the rollers, and a passageway which is formed by means of the screen and the inner drum and which is provided with an outlet. The liquid substance separated by means of the screen is allowed to flow along the passageway, collected at the outlet and discharged from the outlet.

Abstract: A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in an outer periphery thereof with plural pores, a supply device disposed outside the rollers for supplying into the casing under appropriate pressure a solid-liquid mixture to be separated into a solid component via the plural pores and a liquid component filtered inside, a casing wall disposed adjacent to the rollers after the solid-liquid mixture supplied with the supply device is passed through the rollers rotated, a discharge window formed in the casing wall for discharging the solid component, and a pressure application lid formed on the casing wall for stably applying prescribed pressure in a direction of closing the discharge window with a pressure application device.

Abstract: It is to provide a process and apparatus for producing soymilk which is obtained by completely deactivating various kinds of enzymes responsible for a grassy smell, while preventing heating unevenness, and inducing appropriate thermal denaturation of protein and a rich flavor, and which can be processed by coagulation into tofu high in water retentivity and elasticity and rich in flavor.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing tofu coagulant, comprising: a liquid food oil pumping pathway H1 from a liquid food oil tank T1 by a metering pump P1; a mineral salt solution pumping pathway H2 from a mineral salt solution tank T2 by another metering pump P2; an emulsion dispersion machine M1 for stirring the liquid food oil with the mineral salt solution to an emulsification phase; wherein the liquid food oil pumping pathway H1 is connected with the mineral salt solution pumping pathway H2, and the mineral salt solution is added predetermined ratio for producing the tofu coagulant, wherein the water phase and the oil phase are stirred and mixed to W/O type (water in oil type) emulsion (without emulsifier).

Abstract: A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in the outer periphery thereof with plural pores for separating via the plural pores a solid substance from a solid-liquid substance disposed outside the rollers and filtering a liquid substance toward inside the rollers, inside drums each disposed along the inner circumference of each of the rollers, and a passageway which is formed by means of the screen and the inner drum and which is provided with an outlet. The liquid substance separated by means of the screen is allowed to flow along the passageway, collected at the outlet and discharged from the outlet.

Abstract: A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in an outer periphery thereof with plural pores, a supply device disposed outside the rollers for supplying into the casing under appropriate pressure a solid-liquid mixture to be separated into a solid component via the plural pores and a liquid component filtered inside, a casing wall disposed adjacent to the rollers after the solid-liquid mixture supplied with the supply device is passed through the rollers rotated, a discharge window formed in the casing wall for discharging the solid component, and a pressure application lid formed on the casing wall for stably applying prescribed pressure in a direction of closing the discharge window with a pressure application device.

Abstract: The apparatus is characterized by having a tubular member (4) in vertical posture; quantitative discharge means (7) capable of feeding out a solid raw material (6) at a constant rate, disposed inferiorly to the tubular member (4); and altitude control means (10) for control of the altitude of a liquid raw material (8), so that quantitative discharge is effected by placing the solid raw material (6) and the liquid raw material (8) in the tubular member (4) and, while controlling the altitude of the liquid raw material (8), feeding the mixture to the quantitative discharge means (7) by the own weight of the solid raw material (6).

Abstract: A method for producing tofu coagulant includes a mineral salt solution as water phase (tank T2) and a food fat as oil phase including a diacylglycerol is 1 wt % or more (tank T1), comprising: a stirring and mixing step of the water phase and the oil phase to W/O type emulsion by emulsifying dispersion machine M1.

Abstract: [Task] It is to provide a process and apparatus for producing soymilk which is obtained by completely deactivating various kinds of enzymes responsible for a grassy smell, while preventing heating unevenness, and inducing appropriate thermal denaturation of protein and a rich flavor, and which can be processed by coagulation into tofu high in water retentivity and elasticity and rich in flavor.

Abstract: A system and method for evaluating a material body by a scattered light observation system which observes a gel state or a gel-formable sol state material body illuminated with a coherent light through a two dimensional image recognizing means, including measuring a gel state or a change in sol-gel state of said material body using a light section formed on an image forming surface or conditions of a speckle pattern.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to solve the problems regarding the quality control of processed products (including packaged products and intermediate products during production processes) by establishing a non-destructive and non-contact type method for the measurement of gel state of a material body and a change in sol-gel state of the material body, and thereby to provide a quick automatic inspection system by which 100% inspection can be carried out easily and inexpensively on the production line. The problem is solved by observing an image formation or speckle pattern of a light section formed on the surface or observing face of the material body, using a light scattering observation system in which a coherent light (e.g.