Patents by Inventor Noriko Ueda
Noriko Ueda 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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Publication number: 20130225497Abstract: A skin collagen production-promoting agent includes a milk protein fraction having following properties (a) to (c) as an active ingredient: (a) being derived from milk, (b) containing proteins having a molecular weight determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of 6000 to 150,000 daltons, and (c) containing 12 to 14 wt % of basic amino acids with respect to the constituent amino acid composition, and having a basic amino acid/acidic amino acid ratio of 0.5 to 0.7.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: MEGMILK SNOW BRAND CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Aiko Ono, Hiroshi Ueno, Noriko Ueda, Hiroaki Matsuyama
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Publication number: 20130225501Abstract: Skin quality is improved by orally administering a cystatin and/or a degraded product of cystatin in an amount of 10 ?g/day or more per adult, or applying a composition that includes a cystatin and/or a degraded product of cystatin in an amount of 0.001 to 2 wt % based on a total amount of the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: MEGMILK SNOW BRAND CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Aiko Ono, Hiroshi Ueno, Noriko Ueda, Hiroaki Matsuyama
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Patent number: 8486916Abstract: It is intended to find novel pharmaceutical use of sphingomyelin and to provide preventive or therapeutic agents for various diseases as well as a food and drink product and feed comprising any of these agents. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical agent which contains sphingomyelin as an active ingredient and is any of the following agents: 1) a sialomucin secretion promoter, 2) an agent for preventing drunken sickness (hangover), 3) an antiallergic agent, 4) an antioxidant, 5) an agent for defending against infection, 6) a hair growth agent, 7) a therapeutic agent for demyelinating disease, 8) an anti-pigmentation agent, 9) an anti-inflammatory agent, and 10) an agent for improving learning ability. The present invention also provides a food and drink product or feed, characterized by comprising the agent. It is preferred that the sphingomyelin should be derived from milk.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Megmilk Snow Brand Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ken Kato, Susumu Miura, Leo Tanaka, Hiroshi Ueno, Noriko Ueda, Yuko Haruta, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20120208783Abstract: It is intended to find novel pharmaceutical use of sphingomyelin and to provide preventive or therapeutic agents for various diseases as well as a food and drink product and feed comprising any of these agents. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical agent which contains sphingomyelin as an active ingredient and is any of the following agents: 1) a sialomucin secretion promoter, 2) an agent for preventing drunken sickness (hangover), 3) an antiallergic agent, 4) an antioxidant, 5) an agent for defending against infection, 6) a hair growth agent, 7) a therapeutic agent for demyelinating disease, 8) an anti-pigmentation agent, 9) an anti-inflammatory agent, and 10) an agent for improving learning ability. The present invention also provides a food and drink product or feed, characterized by comprising the agent. It is preferred that the sphingomyelin should be derived from milk.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Susumu Miura, Leo Tanaka, Hiroshi Ueno, Noriko Ueda, Yuko Haruta, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20120034177Abstract: Disclosed are: a skin whitening agent comprising, as an active ingredient, a complex of carbonic acid and/or bicarbonic acid, a metal and an LF, a decomposition product of the complex, or a complex of carbonic acid and/or bicarbonic acid, a metal and a decomposition product of an LF; and a food, beverage, feed or cosmetic comprising the skin whitening agent. The skin whitening agent can be ingested safely on a daily basis, and exhibits an excellent skin whitening effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya WATANABE, Ken KATO, Hiroshi UENO, Yuko HARUTA, Noriko UEDA, Toshimitsu YOSHIOKA
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Publication number: 20110065670Abstract: A skin beautifier contains sphingomyelin, which is a phospholipid, as an effective ingredient. In addition, skin-beautifying food or feed contains sphingomyelin as an effective ingredient. The present invention provides a skin beautifier and skin-beautifying food or feed supplying effects on beauty, such as skin-moisturizing and protecting effects, skin-roughness-preventing and improving effects, and a wrinkle-preventing effect, by oral ingestion thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Noriko Ueda, Susumu Miura, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Patent number: 7871713Abstract: An electroluminescent element is disclosed, comprising an electroluminescent material and a fluorescent substance emitting light having an emission maximum at the wavelength different from that of light emitted from the electroluminescent material upon absorption of the light emitted from the electroluminescent material. A color conversion filter is also disclosed, comprising a fluorescent substance emitting light having an emission maximum at the wavelengths of 400 to 700 nm upon absorption of the light emitted from the electroluminescent material.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2006Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Kita, Yoshiyuki Suzuri, Taketoshi Yamada, Kazuaki Nakamura, Noriko Ueda, Yasushi Okubo
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Patent number: 7795801Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element comprising a light emission layer and a hole blocking layer adjacent to the light emission layer, wherein, (i) the light emission layer contains a compound having a specified partial structure and having a molecular weight of not more than 1700; and (ii) the hole blocking layer contains a derivative selected from the group consisting of a styryl derivative, a boron derivative and a carboline derivative.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Noriko Ueda, Taketoshi Yamada, Hiroshi Kita, Mitsuhiro Fukuda
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Publication number: 20100215767Abstract: Disclosed are: a skin whitening agent including, as an active ingredient, a complex of carbonic acid and/or bicarbonic acid, a metal and an LF, a decomposition product of the complex, or a complex of carbonic acid and/or bicarbonic acid, a metal and a decomposition product of an LF; and a food, beverage, feed or cosmetic including the skin whitening agent. The skin whitening agent can be ingested safely on a daily basis, and exhibits an excellent skin whitening effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2008Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Watanabe, Ken Kato, Hiroshi Ueno, Yuko Haruta, Noriko Ueda, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20100197638Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a skin-beautifying agent, food, beverage, or feed for skin-beautification which has cosmetic effects such as moisturizing and beautifying the skin as well as preventing skin roughness and wrinkles by oral intake. The present invention further aims to provide a skin-beautifying agent containing a milk-derived phospholipid as an effective ingredient, and to provide food, beverage, or feed for skin-beautification containing the skin-beautifying agent. The milk-derived phospholipid is preferably a composition prepared from milk or milk material containing 40 to 70% by weight of lipid in a total solid content and containing 30% or more by weight of milk-derived phospholipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Yuko Haruta, Tatsuya Watanabe, Hiroshi Ueno, Noriko Ueda, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20100178361Abstract: There are provided an iron composition including a milk protein and an iron preparation, which is stable in the presence of a substance having a property of releasing iron from the composition or reducing the released iron, and foods or drinks, animal feeds, and medicines blended with the iron composition. A milk protein such as skim milk is blended into an iron preparation, thereby producing the iron composition which is stable in the presence of a substance having a property of releasing iron from the composition or reducing the released iron (e.g., vitamin C or citric acid).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2010Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: SNOWBRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriko UEDA, Ken KATO, Miyako TANAKA, Yuji KAKEHI, Kaoru SATO, Toshimitsu YOSHIOKA
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Patent number: 7749619Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element and a display device exhibiting high emission efficiency and long life. The organic electroluminescent element contains a pair of electrodes having therebetween at least one constituting layer containing a phosphorescent light emitting layer, wherein one of the constituting layer contains a compound of Formula (1): wherein Z1 represents an aromatic heterocylic ring which may have a substituent; Z2 represents an aromatic heterocylic ring or an aromatic hydrocarbon ring both of which may have a substituent; Z3 represents a divalent linking group or a single bond; and R101 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Suzuri, Hiroshi Kita, Eisaku Katoh, Tomohiro Oshiyama, Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Noriko Ueda
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Patent number: 7740955Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent element and a display device exhibiting high emission efficiency and long life. The organic electroluminescent element contains a pair of electrodes having therebetween at least one constituting layer containing a phosphorescent light emitting layer, wherein one of the constituting layer contains a compound represented by Formula (1): wherein Z1 represents an aromatic heterocylic ring which may have a substituent; Z2 represents an aromatic heterocylic ring or an aromatic hydrocarbon ring both of which may have a substituent; Z3 represents a divalent linking group or a single bond; and R101 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2004Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Suzuri, Hiroshi Kita, Eisaku Katoh, Tomohiro Oshiyama, Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Noriko Ueda
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Publication number: 20100135941Abstract: A skin-whitening agent offering an excellent whitening effect and being effective in preventing and treating age spots, freckles, etc., where such skin-whitening agent contains as its effective ingredient a whey protein hydrolyzate characterized by a molecular weight distribution of 10 kDa or less, main peak of 200 Da to 3 kDa, APL (average peptide-chain length) of 2 to 8, free amino acid content of 20% or less, and antigenicity of one-ten thousandth of ?-lactoglobulin or less, as well as a cosmetic, drink or food, feed, pharmaceutical preparation or other skin-whitening product containing such skin-whitening agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2008Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Watanabe, Ken Kato, Hiroshi Ueno, Yuko Haruta, Noriko Ueda, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20100048928Abstract: It is intended to find novel pharmaceutical use of sphingomyelin and to provide preventive or therapeutic agents for various diseases as well as a food and drink product and feed comprising any of these agents. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical agent which contains sphingomyelin as an active ingredient and is any of the following agents: 1) a sialomucin secretion promoter, 2) an agent for preventing drunken sickness (hangover), 3) an antiallergic agent, 4) an antioxidant, 5) an agent for defending against infection, 6) a hair growth agent, 7) a therapeutic agent for demyelinating disease, 8) an anti-pigmentation agent, 9) an anti-inflammatory agent, and 10) an agent for improving learning ability. The present invention also provides a food and drink product or feed, characterized by comprising the agent. It is preferred that the sphingomyelin should be derived from milk.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTDInventors: Ken Kato, Susumu Miura, Leo Tanaka, Hiroshi Ueno, Noriko Ueda, Yuko Haruta, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Patent number: 7629060Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element comprising an anode, a cathode and a component layer including a light emission layer, the component layer being provided between the anode and the cathode, wherein the component layer contains a compound represented by formula 1, X1-(A1)n??Formula 1 wherein A1 represents a group represented by formula 2;Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2003Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Tomohiro Oshiyama, Hiroshi Kita, Taketoshi Yamada, Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Yoshiyuki Suzuri, Motoi Kinoshita, Noriko Ueda
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Publication number: 20090081315Abstract: There are provided an iron composition including a milk protein and an iron preparation, which is stable in the presence of a substance having a property of releasing iron from the composition or reducing the released iron, and foods or drinks, animal feeds, and medicines blended with the iron composition. A milk protein such as skim milk is blended into an iron preparation, thereby producing the iron composition which is stable in the presence of a substance having a property of releasing iron from the composition or reducing the released iron (e.g., vitamin C or citric acid).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2005Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriko Ueda, Ken Kato, Miyako Tanaka, Yuji Kakehi, Kaoru Sato, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20090069217Abstract: Provided is a nutrient composition for promoting collagen production, which contains vitamin C, an iron preparation, and collagen as active ingredients, promotes collagen production in a living body such as skin or bone, prevents or treats skin aging or bone and joint diseases, and is an iron preparation-containing composition having stability imparted thereto. Also provided are a food or beverage, a feed, and a medicine each containing the nutrient composition incorporated therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2005Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: SNOW BRAND MILK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Kato, Noriko Ueda, Miyako Tanaka, Toshimitsu Yoshioka
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Patent number: 7485376Abstract: Disclosed are an organic electroluminescent element comprising a light emission layer containing a phosphorescent compound and a hole transporting layer adjacent thereto containing a hole transporting material, wherein the hole transporting material has a 0-0 band of the phosphorescence spectra of from 300 to 450 nm and has a molecular weight of not less than 550, and an illuminator and a display each comprising the organic electroluminescent element.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2004Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Suzuri, Hiroshi Kita, Tomohiro Oshiyama, Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Noriko Ueda
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Patent number: 7402245Abstract: A first aspect of the present invention relates to a digested sludge treatment apparatus for treating digested sludge generated by subjecting organic waste matter to anaerobic digestion, comprising: an apparatus for decarbonating the digested sludge; a removal apparatus for removing coarse contaminant particles from the digested sludge; and an apparatus for separating or concentrating crystals containing magnesium ammonium phosphate from the digested sludge after the digested sludge passes through the decarbonation apparatus and removal apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Shimamura, Takao Hagino, Noriko Ueda