Patents by Inventor Toshiya Minami

Toshiya Minami 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).

  • Composition comprising turmeric extract and zedoary extract
    Patent number: 9101657
    Abstract: This invention is intended to further improve the effects of alleviating hangover symptoms with the use of a composition comprising a turmeric extract. In particular, this invention is intended to provide a composition that alleviates specific hangover symptoms, such as heartburn and dull headache. The present inventors found that a composition comprising a turmeric (Curcuma longa) extract and a zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria) extract is capable of effectively suppressing heartburn and dull headache among hangover symptoms. The effects attained with the use of the composition of the present invention are remarkable for a person with low aldehyde dehydrogenase activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: HOUSE FOODS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Minami, Masayoshi Kushi
  • Method of preparing soybean mixed powder, method of preparing a solidified soybean food, and a method of preparing a packaged raw material for preparing a solidified soybean food
    Patent number: 9028904
    Abstract: A method of preparing soybean mixed powder comprising a soybean powder having properties wherein formation of agglomerate is small when the powder is added to water and then heated with stirring to dissolve the powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: House Foods Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakuma, Toshiya Minami, Masaki Nakamura
  • COMPOSITION COMPRISING TURMERIC EXTRACT AND ZEDOARY EXTRACT
    Publication number: 20120177758
    Abstract: This invention is intended to further improve the effects of alleviating hangover symptoms with the use of a composition comprising a turmeric extract. In particular, this invention is intended to provide a composition that alleviates specific hangover symptoms, such as heartburn and dull headache. The present inventors found that a composition comprising a turmeric (Curcuma longa) extract and a zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria) extract is capable of effectively suppressing heartburn and dull headache among hangover symptoms. The effects attained with the use of the composition of the present invention are remarkable for a person with low aldehyde dehydrogenase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Toshiya Minami, Masayoshi Kushi
  • Method of Preparing Soybean Mixed Powder, Method of Preparing a Solidified Soybean Food, and a Method of Preparing a Packaged Raw Material for Preparing a Solidified Soybean Food
    Publication number: 20120124946
    Abstract: A method of preparing soybean mixed powder comprising a soybean powder having properties wherein formation of agglomerate is small when the powder is added to water and then heated with stirring to dissolve the powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: HOUSE FOODS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakuma, Toshiya Minami, Masaki Nakamura
  • Soybean Mixed Powder
    Publication number: 20100112144
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is a raw material used for preparing solidified soybean foods comprising the combination of a soybean mixed powder which comprises a soybean powder prepared by the pulverization of dried soybeans, dextrin and an alkali carbonate; and a coagulating agent, and more specifically, a raw material used for preparing solidified soybean foods (such as TOFU and TOFA) which comprises dextrin in an amount ranging from 9 to 40 parts by mass and an alkali carbonate in a rate ranging from 0.15 to 1.6 parts by mass, per 100 parts by mass of the soybean powder as well as a raw material used for preparing a soybean-derived beverage starting from the foregoing soybean mixed powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakuma, Toshiya Minami, Masaki Nakamura
  • Method and apparatus for displaying pixels on a display device
    Patent number: 6040818
    Abstract: A signal generator responsive to a normal mode signal by generating control signals for displaying low luminance foreground pixels and high luminance background pixels. In addition, the signal generator is responsive to a high intensity mode signal by generating control signals for displaying zero luminance foreground pixels and high luminance background pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Minami, Hiroshi Satoh, Takanobu Satoh