Patents by Inventor Yasunori Fukumori

Yasunori Fukumori 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).

  • .alpha.-glucosidase inhibitor, composition principally comprising sugar and containing the same, sweetener, food and feed
    Patent number: 5840705
    Abstract: This invention relates an .alpha.-glucosidase inhibitor mildly inhibiting .alpha.-glucosidase locally present in the micro-villus of small intestine, a composition principally comprising sugar and containing the inhibitor, a food, a sweetener and a feed. The inhibitor delays the digestion of starch, starch-derived oligosaccharides and sucrose, so that the inhibitor has an action of suppressing rapid increase in blood glucose level and an action of suppressing insulin secretion at a lower level. Thus, the inhibitor is useful for the prophylaxis of obesity and diabetes mellitus. The .alpha.-glucosidase inhibitor of the present invention is composed of nucleotide, nucleoside, or base as the structural component of nucleic acid and one or two or more digestible sugars selected from sucrose, starch and starch-derived oligosaccharide. The .alpha.-glucosidase inhibitor mildly inhibits the action of .alpha.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: The Hokuren Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives
    Inventors: Masayuki Tsukada, Hiroyuki Takeda, Norio Maeda, Yasunori Fukumori, Norio Shiomi, Shuichi Onodera, Takuji Fujisawa