Patents by Inventor Toshihiko Takatani

Toshihiko Takatani 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: 9499777
    Abstract: A process for producing malt-based beverage, in which any components, affecting flavor, foam quality, flavor stability and haze stability, of the malt-based beverage can be regulated by separating dried germinated barley as a raw material for malt-based beverage by tissues. In particular, the process for producing malt-based beverage comprises separating dried germinated barley into endosperm, endothelial layer, husk, acrospire, malt rootlets and unseparated part fractions and preparing a starting material of malt-based beverage from each or blend of the thus obtained by-tissue fractions, the each or blend optionally further mixed with wholegrain malt not subjected to fractioning, so that any components, affecting flavor, foam quality, flavor stability and haze stability, of the malt-based beverage can be regulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Nobuo Tada, Takako Inui, Norihiko Kageyama, Toshihiko Takatani, Yasutsugu Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20060263483
    Abstract: A process for producing malt-based beverage, in which any components, affecting flavor, foam quality. flavor stability and haze stability, of the malt based beverage can be regulated by separating dried germinated barley as a raw material for malt-based beverage by tissues. In particular, the process for producing malt-based beverage comprises separating dried germinated barley into endosperm, endothelial layer, husk, acrospire, malt rootlets and unseparated part fractions and preparing a starting material of malt-based beverage from each or blend of the thus obtained by-tissue fractions, the each or blend optionally further mixed with wholegrain malt not subjected to fractioning, so that any components, affecting flavor, foam quality, flavor stability and haze stability, of the malt-based beverage can be regulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Nobuo Tada, Takako Inui, Norihiko Kageyama, Toshihiko Takatani, Yasutsugu Kawasaki