Epoch Company, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Hayashibara Seibutsu Kagaku Kenkyujo

Kabushiki Kaisha Hoyashibara

Teruo Matsumoto

Toshio Miyake

Shinji Suzuki

Hiromi Hijiya

The present invention relates to food products containing a novel alpha-glycosyl ginsenoside wherein one or more alpha-glucosyl moieties are bound to ginsenoside residue, and a process for producing the food products. Such alpha-glycosyl ginsenoside is obtainable by subjecting an aqueous solution of ginsenoside and an alpha-glucosyl saccharide to an alpha-glucosyl transferase.

Alpha-glycosyl ginsenosides

Novel alpha-glycosylated soybean glycosides wherein one or more glucosyl residues are bound to the soybean glycoside moiety are prepared. Alpha-glycosylation can be enzymatically achieved by subjecting an aqueous solution containing a soybean glycoside, e.g. soyasaponin or isoflavonoid, and an alpha-glucosyl saccharide to an alpha-glucosyl transferase. Suitable alpha-glucosyl saccharides are liquefied starch, partially hydrolyzed starch and sucrose. Alpha-glucosidase, alpha-amylase, cyclodextrin glucanotransferase, dextransucrase, dextran dextrinase and amylosucrase are usable as the alpha-glucosyl transferase. Since in the alpha-glycosylated soybean glycosides the undesirable bitter, astringent, harsh and lingering choky tastes which are common in intact soybean glycosides are reduced or even eliminated by the alpha-glycosylation, they are suitable for use in food products or orally-usable products wherein taste is an important factor.

Food products and process for producing same

Combined maze electronic game and watch housing

Puzzle

Basketball game board

A board game combining both skill and chance including a plurality of playing pieces provided with rotatably mounted carriages having surfaces thereof provided with multiple indicia indicating the number of moves that the playing pieces are permitted to make and magnets, a playing surface divided into a plurality of contiguous areas on which the playing pieces are positioned and along which the playing pieces move, and a plurality of magnets positioned below the playing surface and arranged in a pre-determined pattern to attract the magnets of the playing pieces to rotate the carriages and the indicia different degrees as the playing pieces are moved from one area to another so as to continuously change the number of moves that the same playing pieces may make depending on their positions on the playing surface.

Board game

Electrical circuit game board

A baseball game amusement device which is provided with a mechanism for propelling balls within a casing toward target zones labeled to correspond to the various functions that are performed during the playing of baseball, including 'ball', 'strike', 'out', 'hit', 'two base hit', 'three base hit', and 'home run'; a baseball diamond having first, second and third bases provided with openings; designators associated with each of the bases, each including a cup-like retention member for holding one of the balls and provided with indicia designating a player, the designators being normally positioned such that the indicia cannot be seen through the openings and being mounted for rotation such that when a ball is received within the retention member, the designator moves to position the indicia of the player within the opening to be viewed by the user of the amusement device; a scoreboard provided with a visual display indicating the number of runs that have been scored; passageways connecting the various target zones, designators, scoreboard and propulsion mechanism; and actuating rods corresponding to the designators and mounted to the casing for rotation, each of the rods being provided with a first mechanism for preventing the balls from leaving the cup-like retention member of the associated designator, and other mechanisms associated with and extending into certain of the passageways such that balls passing therethrough cause the actuator rods to rotate removing the first mechanism from its position of blocking the passage of balls from the designators.

Baseball game amusement device

An electrical circuit board game having a casing, a playing surface provided on the casing, a plurality of openings within the playing surface that are spaced apart from each other a uniform distance and arranged in a pre-determined pattern, indicia on the surface arranged in connecting relationship between adjacent of the openings, the indicia designating in part certain open junctions or potential connections in an electrical circuit, a supporting surface within the casing positioned below the playing surface, a plurality of separated, electrically conductive strips mounted on the supporting surface such that a portion of one of the strips is positioned directly below each of the openings in the playing surface, the strips being arranged such that the path between adjacent of certain of the openings defines a potential connection between adjacent of the strips, an electrical signal and a source of electrical energy connected to two of the plurality of conductive strips at opposite ends of the supporting surface, a plurality of electrically conductive playing pieces provided with arms that are spaced apart a distance corresponding to the distance the openings are spaced apart from each other, and to be positioned within adjacent of the openings selected by the player, and switching mechanisms for changing the orientation of the circuits.

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Tokyo, Japan

Teruo Matsumoto