Patents by Inventor Shichiro Niwano

Shichiro Niwano 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).

  • Publication number: 20080107793
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a sheet-form food containing soybean protein which contains unicellular soybean (a single cell product of soybean) as the soybean component; and a method of producing the sheet-form food containing soybean protein which comprises shaping dough containing the unicellular soybean into a sheet with the use of a drum dryer. In this food, the unicellular soybean in which soybeans are divided into single cells while remaining the cell wall is used. Since soybean cell wall remains without disruption, the odor and taste characteristic to soybean can be lessened. Moreover, this food can exert an additional effect that the useful components inherent in soybean (i.e. oil and fat, isoflavone, saponin, lecithin, dietary fiber and so on) can be used as such.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tanaka, Shichiro Niwano
  • Patent number: 5591471
    Abstract: A puffed food dough and method for producing a puffed food product from the dough. The dough contains soybean protein, starch and dietary fiber in a ratio by weight of from 1:0.2 to 0.8:0.01 to 0.4, respectively, and from 0.5 to 5 parts by weight of a vegetable foaming agent and from 150 to 300 parts by weight of water per 100 parts by weight in total of the soybean protein, starch, and dietary fiber. The dough does not contain a chemical leavening agent or yeast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Shichiro Niwano
    Inventors: Shichiro Niwano, Norihumi Idomoto
  • Patent number: 4746521
    Abstract: A puffed food product is produced by adding to 100 parts by weight of a mixture comprising a soybean protein isolate and wheat flour in a mixture ratio of 40 to 60:60 to 40 (weight ratio) a mixture containing 10 to 30 parts by weight of at least either one of egg white or whole egg and 0.2 to 3 parts by weight of an expanding agent, and heat treating the mixture by microwave radiation under air blow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: Tajimaya Food Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shichiro Niwano, Norihumi Idomoto