Patents by Inventor Yasutsugu Kawasaki

Yasutsugu Kawasaki 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: 20160168520
    Abstract: To provide a malt fermented beverage having refreshing finish, namely clear taste while ensuring robust feel by making use proportion of malt in starting materials high. Provided is a malt fermented beverage which includes an alcohol-containing material obtained by fermentation using wheat or barley as a part of starting material, serving as a component A; and an alcohol-containing distillate obtained by distilling an alcohol-containing material at least partly made of wheat or barley, serving as a component B; and is produced by adding the component B to the component A. Preferably, the component A is beer, and the component B is mugi shochu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoichi KAKUDO, Manabu YOSHIDA, Takashi KIMURA, Yasutsugu KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 8420149
    Abstract: To provide a malt fermented beverage having refreshing finish, namely clear taste while ensuring robust feel by making use proportion of malt in starting materials high. Provided is a malt fermented beverage which includes an alcohol-containing material obtained by fermentation using wheat or barley as a part of starting material, serving as a component A; and an alcohol-containing distillate obtained by distilling an alcohol-containing material at least partly made of wheat/barley, serving as a component B; and is produced by adding the component B to the component A. Preferably, the component A is beer, and the component B is mugi shochu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Suntory Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Yoichi Kakudo, Manabu Yoshida, Takashi Kimura, Yasutsugu Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20070275120
    Abstract: To provide a malt fermented beverage having refreshing finish, namely clear taste while ensuring robust feel by making use proportion of malt in starting materials high. Provided is a malt fermented beverage which includes an alcohol-containing material obtained by fermentation using wheat/barley as a part of starting material, serving as a component A; and an alcohol-containing distillate obtained by distilling an alcohol-containing material at least partly made of wheat/barley, serving as a component B; and is produced by adding the component B to the component A. Preferably, the component A is beer, and the component B is mugi shochu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: SUNTORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoichi Kakudo, Manabu Yoshida, Takashi Kimura, 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