Patents by Inventor Shigeharu Kanemoto
Shigeharu Kanemoto 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: 10136665Abstract: Raw material rice (brown rice and partially-milled rice) is subjected to a preliminary pressurized steam-boiling process to form an alpharized layer on the surface of the raw material rice, and then a moisture adding process is performed. Since the surface of the raw material rice is alpharized to become stiff with the preliminary pressurized steam-boiling process, even rapid moisture addition does not cause a crack in the raw material rice. Therefore, water absorption can be quickly achieved to a target moisture content, thereby reducing a moisture adding time. Also, with no crack, quick-cooking rice with an excellent outer appearance of rice as a product and without a drain of nutrients in rice grains at the time of rice cooking.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Keishi Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 8399037Abstract: Grain or legume having an increased content of a functional component (?-aminobutyric acid) is obtained by humidifying grain (such as rice, wheat or corn) or legume (such as soybean and adzuki bean) by forcing the grain into an air having a temperature of 50° C. or more and a relative humidity of 90% or more such that a moisture content thereof rises within the range of 16.0% to 18.5%, and thereafter, drying the grain or legume.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Keishi Wakabayashi, Hou Qing Liu, Shinya Ochiai
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Patent number: 8342117Abstract: There is provided a coating apparatus capable of continuously producing coated rice having powdered coating material adhered to the grains and including a drying process to prevent the grains from being bonded to one another and make the grain surfaces smoother upon drying of the grains. The coating apparatus comprising a binder coating unit for applying liquid binder to the grains being conveyed through a coating and stirring chamber to coat the grain surfaces with the binder; a adhering unit for adding powder material to the grains conveyed through a adhering and stirring chamber to adhere the powdered material to the grain surface by the binder; and a drying unit including a drying and stirring chamber through which the grains are conveyed while being stirred, a blow passage for blowing hot air into the drying chamber to dry the grains, and an exhaust passage for exhausting the hot air from the drying chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Syuji Morito, Hiroyuki Maehara, Keishi Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20110151086Abstract: Grain or legume having an increased content of a functional component (?-aminobutyric acid) is obtained by humidifying grain (such as rice, wheat or corn) or legume (such as soybean and adzuki bean) by forcing the grain into an air having a temperature of 50° C. or more and a relative humidity of 90% or more such that a moisture content thereof rises within the range of 16.0% to 18.5%, and thereafter, drying the grain or legume.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Hou Qing Liu
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Publication number: 20100323087Abstract: Raw material rice (brown rice and partially-milled rice) is subjected to a preliminary pressurized steam-boiling process to form an alpharized layer on the surface of the raw material rice, and then a moisture adding process is performed. Since the surface of the raw material rice is alpharized to become stiff with the preliminary pressurized steam-boiling process, even rapid moisture addition does not cause a crack in the raw material rice. Therefore, water absorption can be quickly achieved to a target moisture content, thereby reducing a moisture adding time. Also, with no crack, quick-cooking rice with an excellent outer appearance of rice as a product and without a drain of nutrients in rice grains at the time of rice cooking.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Keishi Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20100242838Abstract: There is provided a coating apparatus capable of continuously producing coated rice having powdered coating material adhered to the grains and including a drying process to prevent the grains from being bonded to one another and make the grain surfaces smoother upon drying of the grains. The coating apparatus comprising a binder coating unit for applying liquid binder to the grains being conveyed through a coating and stirring chamber to coat the grain surfaces with the binder; a adhering unit for adding powder material to the grains conveyed through a adhering and stirring chamber to adhere the powdered material to the grain surface by the binder; and a drying unit including a drying and stirring chamber through which the grains are conveyed while being stirred, a blow passage for blowing hot air into the drying chamber to dry the grains, and an exhaust passage for exhausting the hot air from the drying chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Satake CorporationInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Syuji Morito, Hiroyuki Maehara, Keishi Wakabayashi
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Publication number: 20100112184Abstract: There is provided a coating solution which can efficiently take in dietary fiber at high concentration. A manufacturing method and apparatus of the coating solution are provided. According to this method, the coating solution having high viscosity can be obtained. According to this apparatus, even if the added amount is larger compared to the amount of rice, a large amount of coated rice can be continuously manufactured without causing the clogging in the flow of rice and the coating solution in the apparatus and the binding of rice. The coating solution is added at a ratio of 6.0 to 8.0% by weight to rice. The coating solution is made of a water solution of a mixture of one or more kinds of soluble dietary fiber and one or more kinds of insoluble dietary fiber. The mixture is at a ratio of one part by weight of the soluble dietary fiber and 0.5 to 2 parts by weight of the insoluble dietary fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Keishi Wakabayashi, Shuji Moritou, Hiroyuki Maehara
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Publication number: 20080286435Abstract: Grain or legume having an increased content of a functional component (?-aminobutyric acid) is obtained by humidifying grain (such as rice, wheat or corn) or legume (such as soybean and adzuki bean) by forcing the grain into an air having a temperature of 50° C. or more and a relative humidity of 90% or more such that a moisture content thereof rises within the range of 16.0% to 18.5%, and thereafter, drying the grain or legume.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2008Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hidenori Mizuno, Keishi Wakabayashi, Hou Qing Liu, Shinya Ochiai
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Publication number: 20080220145Abstract: A method of producing parboiled rice that does not require waste water treatment equipment and that enriches the amount of ?-aminobutyric acid contained in the parboiled rice. The method includes partially milling raw material brown rice, wetting the partially milled rice grains by forced-air using moist air or mist, moisture-tempering the wetted rice grains, steam-boiling the water-tempered rice grains at normal pressure to heat the rice grains with steam, steam-boiling the rice grains heated in the normal pressure steam-boiling process using pressurized steam, cooling the rice grains steamed under pressure in the pressurized steam-boiling step to cool at least a surface of the rice grains, finish milling the rice grains cooled in the cooling step, and drying the finish-milled rice grains.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Keishi Wakabayashi, Kengo Watanabe, Junya Ishibashi, Shinya Ochiai
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Patent number: 7357954Abstract: Milled rice grains are primarily immersed, and at least surface layers of the grains are converted to the alpha-type. The rice grains are then preliminarily dried and consummatively polished, and are further subjected to secondary immersing and secondary alpha-type conversion. During these processes, there occurs no cracking on the surfaces of the rice grains. The consummatively polished rice grains are then separated into individual single grains. The separated individual single grains are finally dried whereby the finished product of instant rice is obtained. The instant rice containing polished rice has good appearance and quality.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2003Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Shigeharu Kanemoto, Keishi Wakabayashi, John H. Kendall, Ranvir B. Mohindra
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Publication number: 20070196559Abstract: By use of a device having a construction similar to that of a grain dryer, high-humidity air is applied to brown rice that is being transferred in a circulating manner through the device, the moisture of the brown rice is increased at water addition rates of 0.1 to 0.3%/hour in the range of 16.5 to 18.5% and the brown rice is thereafter left at rest in the device, in a state where blowing of air and circulated transfer of the brown rice are stopped. As a result, the functional component of ?-aminobutyric acid (GABA) contained in the brown rice is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hou Qing Liu, Hidenori Mizuno, Motonobu Kawano
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Publication number: 20060263499Abstract: Water is slowly added to dry grain having a water content previously adjusted to 10% to 15% at a water addition rate of 0.5% to 2.0%/h, in order to provide a water content of 20% to 30%, and thereafter, the grain is placed into a tank, followed by tempering for 2 to 15 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2004Publication date: November 23, 2006Inventors: Toshiko Satake, Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hou Liu, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Motonobu Kawano, Hiroto Shinmura, Hiromichi Aoto, Kota Nakagawa, Kenichi Ishiwata
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Patent number: 7016043Abstract: A quality evaluation method and apparatus for non-bran rice evaluate quality or taste of non-bran rice by identifying proportions of a hull layer, an aleurone layer, an endosperm layer, which adhere to a surface of the non-bran rice according to luminance levels of self-emitted fluorescence obtained by irradiating the non-bran rice with excitation light.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignees: Satake Corporation, Japan Rice Millers AssociationInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Takamasa Mesaki, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yuka Kuribayashi, Michiko Matsuda, Kazuo Amano
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Patent number: 7008662Abstract: Warm and wet air are applied to brown rice with germinated germs, produced by adding water to the brown rice, for removing water attached to a surface of the rice. A surface of the germinated brown rice is polished by a rice-polishing machine while remaining the germinated germs to obtain rice with germinated germs. Water of about 1 to 10% of rice weight is added to soften the rice surface. The rice and granules whose granule size is set to a constant granule size smaller than that of the rice and which is heated to 60° C. or higher are mixed with the rice and stirred. Rice bran remaining on a rice surface after polishing is absorbed by the granules and is removed. And, the rice and granules are separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2002Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Toshiko Satake, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Yukihiro Kawano, Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Kazuo Hironaka
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Publication number: 20040178359Abstract: Rice washing water is exposed to ultraviolet light so that ferulic acid in the rice washing water is excited by the ultraviolet light to emit fluorescence. Then the intensity of fluorescence emitted by the ferulic acid in the rice washing water is measured and the measured values are used as an index to judge the amount of bran in the rice washing water. Preferably the wave length of the ultraviolet light is set to fall in the range of 330 to 340 nm and the wave length of the fluorescence, whose intensity is to be measured, is set to fall in the range of 430 to 450 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hiroyuki Maehara, Hisahiko Watanabe, Hideki Ushio
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Publication number: 20040126476Abstract: Milled rice grains are primarily immersed, and at least surface layers of the grains are converted to the alpha-type. The rice grains are then preliminarily dried and consummatively polished, and are further subjected to secondary immersing and secondary alpha-type conversion. During these processes, there occurs no cracking on the surfaces of the rice grains. The consummatively polished rice grains are then separated into individual single grains. The separated individual single grains are finally dried whereby the finished product of instant rice is obtained. The instant rice containing polished rice has good appearance and quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Shigeharu Kanemoto, Keishi Wakabayashi, John H. Kendall, Ranvir B. Mohindra
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Publication number: 20040043120Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for processing polished rice capable of enhancing whiteness and also providing high brilliance on grain surfaces of processed polished rice. The method comprises the steps of adding moisture to the polished rice to soften grain surfaces thereof; mixing and stirring starchy granular material heated to have temperature not less than 60° C. with the moistened polished rice so that bran stuck on the grain surfaces of the polished rice is captured by the starchy granular material and removed; and separating the polished rice from the starchy granular material with bran captured, and smoothing the grain surfaces by eliminating minute inequalities thereof after the bran removed so as to enhance brilliance of the grain surfaces. The polished rice processing apparatus of the present invention comprises moisture adding means, mixing/stirring means and separating/smoothing means for carrying out the above respective steps of the polished rice processing method.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Applicant: SATAKE CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeharu Kanemoto, Nobuhiro Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20030112440Abstract: A quality evaluation method and apparatus for non-bran rice evaluate quality or taste of non-bran rice by identifying proportions of a hull layer, an aleurone layer, an endosperm layer, which adhere to a surface of the non-bran rice according to luminance levels of self-emitted fluorescence obtained by irradiating the non-bran rice with excitation light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2002Publication date: June 19, 2003Applicants: Satake Corporation, Japan Rice Millers AssociationInventors: Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Takamasa Mesaki, Hiroyuki Maehara, Yuka Kuribayashi, Michiko Matsuda, Kazuo Amano
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Publication number: 20030064132Abstract: Warm and wet air are applied to brown rice with germinated germs, produced by adding water to the brown rice, for removing water attached to a surface of the rice. A surface of the germinated brown rice is polished by a rice-polishing machine while remaining the germinated germs to obtain rice with germinated germs. Water of about 1 to 10% of rice weight is added to soften the rice surface. The rice and granules whose granule size is set to a constant granule size smaller than that of the rice and which is heated to 60° C. or higher are mixed with the rice and stirred. Rice bran remaining on a rice surface after polishing is absorbed by the granules and is removed. And, the rice and granules are separated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: Satake CorporationInventors: Toshiko Satake, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Yukihiro Kawano, Nobuhiro Matsumoto, Kazuo Hironaka
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Patent number: 6199777Abstract: A flour milling method and a flour milling system are provided, in which a plurality of milling steps whose milling degrees are different from one another are performed sequentially from an upperstream to a downstream, each of the milling steps including a breaking step and a grading step. The steps are carried out by sorting the raw wheat grains into regular wheat grains and material other than the regular wheat grains, forwarding the sorted regular wheat grains to the uppermost-stream milling step, and forwarding the sorted material other than the regular wheat grains to at least one of downstream milling steps at a downstream of the uppermost-stream milling step. The method and the system enable the production of wheat flour of better quality with better yield than that conventionally produced.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Satake CorporationInventors: Satoru Satake, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Takeshi Munesada, Yoshimasa Tomoyasu