Patents by Inventor Shigemitsu Abe

Shigemitsu Abe 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).

  • Patent number: 7354615
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a process for producing mixed crystals of disodium 5?-guanylate and disodium 5?-inosinate which comprises precipitating mixed crystals of disodium 5?-guanylate and disodium 5?-inosinate (I+G mixed crystals) by adding an aqueous mixed solution of disodium 5?-guanylate and disodium 5?-inosinate and a hydrophilic organic solvent at the same time into a crystallization vessel in such manner that the ratio of the hydrophilic organic solvent to the liquid phase in the crystallization vessel is maintained in a range of 30 to 70 vol %, as well as such process for producing I+G mixed crystals wherein said producing of I+G mixed crystals is carried out by seeding crystallization wherein crystals of 5?-IMP2Na or/and I+G mixed crystals are used as seed crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Toyokazu Kaneko, Yasuo Yonou, Naoto Hirano, Shigemitsu Abe, Kunihiko Toumori
  • Patent number: 6821306
    Abstract: Herein is disclosed a method for producing mixed crystals of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate which comprises feeding a mixed solution of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate which solution will become supersaturated at the below-mentioned constant temperature, to a solution or slurry of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate charged in a crystallization bath (lower-temperature bath) and kept at a constant temperature, whereby mixed crystals of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate are deposited from the mixed solution of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate, according to which method 5′-GMP2Na which is difficult to handle due to the properties and powder characteristic of its crystals in particular and 5′-IMP2Na, in the form of crystals which are easy to handle, that is, I+G mixed crystals having a given I/G ratio, can be produced under simple process control and with inexpensi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Tachibana, Yasuo Yonou, Naoto Hirano, Shigemitsu Abe
  • Publication number: 20020177702
    Abstract: Herein is disclosed a method for producing mixed crystals of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate which comprises feeding a mixed solution of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate which solution will become supersaturated at the below-mentioned constant temperature, to a solution or slurry of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate charged in a crystallization bath (lower-temperature bath) and kept at a constant temperature, whereby mixed crystals of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate are deposited from the mixed solution of disodium 5′-guanylate and disodium 5′-inosinate, according to which method 5′-GMP2Na which is difficult to handle due to the properties and powder characteristic of its crystals in particular and 5′-IMP2Na, in the form of crystals which are easy to handle, that is, I+G mixed crystals having a given I/G ratio, can be produced under simple process control and with inexpensi
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC
    Inventors: Shinya Tachibana, Yasuo Yonou, Naoto Hirano, Shigemitsu Abe
  • Patent number: 5015386
    Abstract: A method for separating electrolytes which have different charges of the same sign or of carrying out ion exchange of electrolytes with counterions, which comprises causing the electrolytes (anion or cation) to pass through a positively or negatively charged loose reverse-osmotic membrane, in an aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Tanabe, Shigemitsu Abe, Masazumi Date, Tetsuya Kawakita