Patents by Inventor Yuka Kikuchi

Yuka Kikuchi 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: 8535749
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oil-and-fat composition suitable for the coating with a tempered chocolate, particularly suitable for the enrobing with the chocolate. Also disclosed is a low-fat tempered chocolate suitable for coating, particularly enrobing. Specifically disclosed is an oil-and-fat composition which has a content of an oleoyldipalmitin (P2O) component of 70 to 85% by mass, which contains a symmetric triglyceride 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoylglycerin (POP) in the oleoyldipalmitin (P2O) component at a ratio of the amount of 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoylglycerin (POP) to the amount of the oleoyldipalmitin (P2O) component [(POP)/(P2O)] of 0.95 or more by mass, and which has a content of tripalmitin (PPP) of 2 to 6% by mass. The oil-and-fat composition is added to a tempered chocolate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: The Nisshin Oillio Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Akahane, Yoshiyuki Hatano, Hirofumi Haruna, Hidetaka Uehara, Satoshi Negishi, Yuka Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8124158
    Abstract: Fat-and-oil composition comprising fat-and-oil A (foA), foB, foD and optional foE as defined below and meeting the following conditions: FoA; fat-and-oil including lauric fat-and-oil, etc., FoB; transesterified oil of foC wherein the contents of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids having 16 or more carbon atoms are in specific ranges, respectively, FoD; fat-and-oil containing XOX-type triacyl glycerols in a content of 30% by mass or more, FoE; fat-and-oil ingredient which is derived from vegetable fats and oils and does not belong to any of foA, foB and foD; in all the fat-and-oil ingredients derived from vegetable fats and oils, the contents % by mass of foA, foB and XOX-type triacyl glycerols are 1 to 4, 10 to 20, and 40 or more but less than 60, respectively; and oil-in-water emulsified product containing the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: The Nisshin Oillio Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyomi Oonishi, Yoshiyuki Hatano, Hirofumi Haruna, Yuka Kikuchi, Akira Sato, Hiroki Kannari, Masayuki Sato
  • Patent number: 7998520
    Abstract: A fat-and-oil composition comprising fats-and-oils A and B, and C and/or E, all being derived from vegetable fats-and-oils, the composition satisfying conditions (a), (b) and (c): A: at least one of lauric fats-and-oils, and fractionated, extremely hardened or transesterified oils of lauric fats-and-oils, B: a liquid oil, C: a transesterified oil of D derived from vegetable fats-and-oils, D: a fat-and-oil wherein the contents of saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids having 16 or more carbon atoms in all the constitutive fatty acids being 20%? but <75% by mass, and 25%? but <70% by mass, respectively, and E: a middle-melting fractionated oil of palm oil and/or palm oil wherein the solid fat content is 50? but <100% at 10° C., 20? but <90% at 20° C., and <6% at 35° C., the contents of A, B, and C and/or E in all the fat-and-oil ingredients derived from vegetable fats-and-oils being (a) 60%< but ?98% by mass, (b) 1 to 25% by mass, and (c) 1 to 38% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: The Nisshin Oillio Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyomi Oonishi, Yoshiyuki Hatano, Hirofumi Haruna, Yuka Kikuchi, Akira Sato, Hiroki Kannari, Masayuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20110117261
    Abstract: Fat-and-oil composition comprising fat-and-oil A (foA), foB, foD and optional foE as defined below and meeting the following conditions: FoA; fat-and-oil including lauric fat-and-oil, etc., FoB; transesterified oil of foC wherein the contents of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids having 16 or more carbon atoms are in specific ranges, respectively, FoD; fat-and-oil containing XOX-type triacyl glycerols in a content of 30% by mass or more, FoE; fat-and-oil ingredient which is derived from vegetable fats and oils and does not belong to any of foA, foB and foD; in all the fat-and-oil ingredients derived from vegetable fats and oils, the contents % by mass of foA, foB and XOX-type triacyl glycerols are 1 to 4, 10 to 20, and 40 or more but less than 60, respectively; and oil-in-water emulsified product containing the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Kiyomi Oonishi, Yoshiyuki Hatano, Hirofumi Haruna, Yuka Kikuchi, Akira Sato, Hiroki Kannari, Masayuki Sato
  • Patent number: 7923050
    Abstract: An oil-and-fat composition for coating that simultaneously exhibit both significantly conflicting properties: drying quickly at ambient temperature and hardly peeling off (when eaten), and a food product including the oil-and-fat composition. The oil-and-fat composition for coating of the present invention includes an interesterified oil (A) that is nonselectively interesterified and contains 80 mass % or more of a fatty acid having 16 or more carbon atoms and 35 to 60 mass % of a saturated fatty acid having 16 or more carbon atoms in its constituent fatty acids, and an interesterified oil (B) that is nonselectively interesterified and contains 20 to 60 mass % of a saturated fatty acid having 12 to 14 carbon atoms and 40 to 80 mass % of a saturated fatty acid having 16 to 18 carbon atoms in its constituent fatty acids. The composition also includes a tri-saturated fatty acid acylglycerol in a content of 10 to 15 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: The Nisshin OilliO Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Akahane, Yoshiyuki Hatano, Hirofumi Haruna, Kiyomi Oonishi, Yuka Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20110039008
    Abstract: A fat-and-oil composition comprising fats-and-oils A and B, and C and/or E, all being derived from vegetable fats-and-oils, the composition satisfying conditions (a), (b) and (c): A: at least one of lauric fats-and-oils, and fractionated, extremely hardened or transesterified oils of lauric fats-and-oils, B: a liquid oil, C: a transesterified oil of D derived from vegetable fats-and-oils, D: a fat-and-oil wherein the contents of saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids having 16 or more carbon atoms in all the constitutive fatty acids being 20%? but <75% by mass, and 25%? but <70% by mass, respectively, and E: a middle-melting fractionated oil of palm oil and/or palm oil wherein the solid fat content is 50? but <100% at 10° C., 20? but <90% at 20° C., and <6% at 35° C., the contents of A, B, and C and/or E in all the fat-and-oil ingredients derived from vegetable fats-and-oils being (a) 60%< but ?98% by mass, (b) 1 to 25% by mass, and (c) 1 to 38% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventors: Kiyomi OONISHI, Yoshiyuki Hatano, Hirofumi Haruna, Yuka Kikuchi, Akira Sato, Hiroki Kannari, Masayuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20110008499
    Abstract: An oil-and-fat composition for coating that simultaneously exhibit both significantly conflicting properties: drying quickly at ambient temperature and hardly peeling off (when eaten), and a food product including the oil-and-fat composition. The oil-and-fat composition for coating of the present invention includes an interesterified oil (A) that is nonselectively interesterified and contains 80 mass % or more of a fatty acid having 16 or more carbon atoms and 35 to 60 mass % of a saturated fatty acid having 16 or more carbon atoms in its constituent fatty acids, and an interesterified oil (B) that is nonselectively interesterified and contains 20 to 60 mass % of a saturated fatty acid having 12 to 14 carbon atoms and 40 to 80 mass % of a saturated fatty acid having 16 to 18 carbon atoms in its constituent fatty acids. The composition also includes a tri-saturated fatty acid acylglycerol in a content of 10 to 15 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: The Nisshin OilliO Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Akahane, Yoshiyuki Hatano, Hirofumi Haruna, Kiyomi Oonishi, Yuka Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20100278985
    Abstract: Disclosed is an oil-and-fat composition suitable for the coating with a tempered chocolate, particularly suitable for the enrobing with the chocolate. Also disclosed is a low-fat tempered chocolate suitable for coating, particularly enrobing. Specifically disclosed is an oil-and-fat composition which has a content of an oleoyldipalmitin (P2O) component of 70 to 85% by mass, which contains a symmetric triglyceride 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoylglycerin (POP) in the oleoyldipalmitin (P2O) component at a ratio of the amount of 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoylglycerin (POP) to the amount of the oleoyldipalmitin (P2O) component [(POP)/(P2O)] of 0.95 or more by mass, and which has a content of tripalmitin (PPP) of 2 to 6% by mass. The oil-and-fat composition is added to a tempered chocolate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: The Nisshin OilliO Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Akahane, Yoshiyuki Hatano, Hirofumi Haruna, Hidetaka Uehara, Satoshi Negishi, Yuka Kikuchi