Meiji Co., Ltd.

Tetsu Kamiya

Keigo Hanyu

Aya Kato

Koji Yamamura

Yoshinori Satake

Yoshio Toyama

Yukihiro Michiwaki

Masashi Onozato

Jin Ogiwara

Hiroki Matsubara

Toshihiro Omori

Takefumi Ichimura

Kazunori Kashiwagi

Keigo Hanyuu

Rika Murakami

Nobuko Jinno

Megumi Takai

Satake Yoshinori,

Provided are a solid food and a solid milk which have suitable solubility and strength adequate to resist breakage during handling. The solid food is a solid food having a solid form obtained by compression molding a food powder, in which an increase in total crystallization rate that is a difference of a crystal ratio with respect to a total weight on a surface of the solid food relative to a crystal ratio in an inner part of the solid food is 0.1% by weight or less. Further, a depth from the surface of the solid food at which the increase in total crystallization rate is zero or minimal is 0.2 mm or less.

Solid food and solid milk

Provided is a method for producing a compressed body of a powder capable of improving a hardness while suppressing a decrease in production efficiency of the compressed body of the powder. A compressed bodyof a powder is compression molded by compressing a powder supplied into die holesby a lower punchand an upper punch. In the compression molding, a first compression and a second compression following the first compression are performed. In the first compression, the compression is performed at a first compression speed, and in the second compression, the compression is performed at a second compression speed that is lower than the first compression speed.

Method for producing compressed body of powder

A solid food is a solid food having a solid form obtained by compression molding and hardening a food powder, in which a specific surface area voxel ratio of the solid food is configured such that an average value A from a surface of the solid food to a depth of 2 mm is smaller than an average value C from a depth of 4 mm from the surface of the solid food to a depth of 6 mm, and a rate of decrease (C−A)/C×100 of the specific surface area voxel ratio obtained by dividing a difference (C−A) between the average value C and the average value A by the average value C is 9.5% or less.

Solid food, compression-molded food powder product, solid milk, and compression-molded powdered milk product having reduced fracture stress

A method for producing a solid food having a solid form obtained by compression molding a food powder includes: compression molding the food powder to form a compression molded body of the food powder; and performing a hardening treatment on the compression molded body of the food powder, in which the hardening treatment includes placing the compression molded body of the food powder under an environment of a humidity of 100% RH or less and a temperature of higher than 100° C.

Method for producing solid food product, and method for producing solid milk including hardening treatment

A solid food is a solid food having a solid form obtained by compression molding a powder, in which in a case where a drop test in which the solid food is dropped onto a drop face is repeated until the solid food is broken, the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when a dropping energy density per unit fracture stress EF is 2×10[(J/m)/(N/m)] is 3 times or more, the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when EF is 1×10[(J/m)/(N/m)] is 10 times or more, and the number of times of dropping leading to breakage when EF is 5×10[(J/m)/(N/m)] is more than 30 times, EF being obtained by dividing a dropping energy density in the drop test by a fracture stress of the solid food.

Solid food and solid milk having excellent resistance to breakage when dropped

An atomization devicecomprises a casing, a rotordisposed rotatably with respect to the casing, and a statordisposed on the same axis line with the rotor. The rotorincludes a first rotor cylinder portionand a second rotor cylinder portionwhich have a plurality of through-holes provided in peripheral walls thereof and which are disposed concentrically. The statorincludes a main-stator cylinder portionand an inside sub-stator cylinder portionwhich have a plurality of through-holes provided in peripheral walls thereof and which are disposed concentrically. The rotoris fixedly positioned with respect to the casing. The statoris movable by a lifting/lowering meansin the axial line L direction.

Atomization device

An object of the present invention is to develop a mechanism capable of more effectively performing processing such as emulsification, dispersion, dissolution, atomization, mixing, or stirring on a processing object with fluidity using an atomization device including a rotor-stator type mixer while an inside of a processing tank is maintained in a pressured state, at atmospheric pressure, or in a vacuum state, and occurrence of a negative pressure state on a center side (inner diameter side) of a rotor is actively suppressed or prevented. An atomization device comprises a rotor-stator type mixer in a processing tank. The atomization device performs processing such as emulsification, dispersion, atomization, mixing, or stirring on a processing object with fluidity using the rotor-stator type mixer while an inside of the processing tank is maintained in a pressured state, at atmospheric pressure, or in a vacuum state. The atomization device has a mechanism in which the rotating rotor makes the processing object flow at a predetermined pressure or higher.

Atomization device and method for manufacturing product with fluidity using said device

The present invention is directed to development of a device which makes it possible to precisely and easily measure, evaluate, and quantify dynamic properties of an alimentary bolus by simulating swallowing of a wide variety of types of food products, and also directed to a method to estimate mouthfeel from the dynamic properties by use of the device. The above measurement device to simulatively reproduce a state of the swallowing of the alimentary bolus, and to measure motion and shape of a specimen as a simulative alimentary bolus, comprises a tilted plate having a tilted surface; a supply unit (a) to supply the specimen onto the tilted surface; a supply sensor (c) to detect the specimen supplied from the supply unit (a) onto the tilted surface; arrival sensors (d, f) to detect the specimen downwardly flowing through a predetermined site on the tilted surface; a data logger (i) to record an output from each of the sensors; an upper camera (h) to image, from a position above the tilted surface, the specimen downwardly flowing on the tilted surface, to produce an upper image; a side camera (g) to image, from a side of the tilted surface, the specimen downwardly flowing on the tilted surface, to produce a side image; and a calculation unit which uses at least one of the output from the data logger (i), the side image, and the upper image to calculate a state parameter that represents a state of the specimen downwardly flowing on the tilted surface.

Measurement device and method for estimating mouthfeel and behavior of alimentary bolus during eating and swallowing

A swallowing simulation apparatus that facilitate approximately reproducing an actual phenomenon of swallowing and allows quantifying a physical quantity related to a behavior and a physical property of an orally-ingested product is provided. The swallowing simulation apparatusA comprises a head-and-neck modeling unitconfigured to form a dynamic three-dimensional model of the head-and-neckthat includes head-and-neck organs, an organ movement setting unitconfigured to set movements of the respective head-and-neck organs in the dynamic three-dimensional model of the head-and-neck, an orally-ingested-product physical-property setting unitconfigured to set an orally-ingested product as an analysis target and a physical property of the orally-ingested product, an input unitconfigured to input a pseudo-orally-ingested productformed by modeling the orally-ingested product to an oral cavity, a movement analysis unitconfigured to analyze the movements of the respective head-and-neck organs in the dynamic three-dimensional model of the head-and-neckand a behavior of the pseudo-orally-ingested productduring swallowed in a three-dimensional space using a particle method, and a display unitconfigured to display an analysis result of the movements of the respective head-and-neck organs and the behavior of the pseudo-orally-ingested product during swallowed that are analyzed by the movement analysis uniton a movement screen.

Swallowing simulation apparatus and method

A method using a membrane-concentration method and a freeze-concentration method includes: a membrane-concentration step in which a fluid to be treated is cooled and a membrane-concentrated fluid is prepared by membrane-concentrating the solid content concentration thereof by more than 1.5 times; an ice crystal generation step in which said membrane-concentrated fluid is cooled, ice crystals of said membrane-concentrated fluid are generated in said membrane-concentrated fluid, and a mixed fluid to be treated is formed wherein said mixed fluid to be treated is comprised of said ice crystals and a concentrated fluid to be treated produced from said membrane-concentrated fluid by generating said ice crystals in said membrane-concentrated fluid thereby said membrane-concentrated fluid is concentrated; and an ice crystal separation step in which said mixed fluid is separated into said concentrated fluid to be treated and said ice crystals, and said separated concentrated fluid to be treated is retrieved.

Production method for concentrated product using membrane-concentration method and freeze-concentration method

A swallowing simulation apparatus comprises a computer that stores swallowing simulation software that when executed results in an oral cavity model and a pseudo-food product which are analyzed in a swallowing simulation. The analysis is used to evaluate ease of eating and/or drinking.

Herein is disclosed a comprehensive mixer performance estimation method that can be applied to the mixers of the rotor-stator type having various configurations and circulation systems. Specifically, the performance estimation method for the mixers of the rotor-stator type includes the steps of: obtaining the homogenization index: H.I. for each of the mixers, measuring the size of each of the mixers, the powder requirements and flow rates during the running time of each of the mixers, estimating the magnitude (smallness or greatness) of the configuration dependent term value of each of the mixer as whole which is specific to each of the mixers, and estimating the performance of each of the mixers accordingly.

Particle size breakup device and its performance estimation method and scale up method

A rotor/stator type mixer implements the particle size breakup apparatus and includes a stator having a plurality of openings formed thereon and a rotor disposed on the inside of the stator and spaced away from the stator with a specific gap. The rotor, which is disposed inwardly of the stator having the plurality of openings formed thereon so that it can be spaced away from the stator with the specific gap, has a rotor peripheral wall that faces opposite the inside of the stator peripheral wall and is disposed inwardly radially of the peripheral wall of the stator having the plurality of openings formed thereon so that it can be spaced away from the stator with the specific gap. In addition, the rotor has a plurality of openings formed thereon.

Particle size breakup apparatus having blade-supported rotor

A mixer of the rotor-stator type that includes a stator having a plurality of openings and a rotor disposed on the inner side of the stator and spaced by a predetermined gap away from the stator is described, wherein the mixer that is capable of improving the shearing stress applied upon the liquid being processed and provides the higher performance is proposed. The stator includes a plurality of stators each having a different circumferential diameter, and the rotor is disposed on the inner side of the plurality of stators and spaced by the predetermined gap away from the stators so that the stators and the rotor can be brought closer to or farther away from each other in the direction in which the rotary shaft of the rotor extends.

Particle size breakup apparatus having a rotor and a stator

Herein is disclosed a comprehensive mixer performance estimation method that can be applied to the mixers of the rotor-stator type having various configurations and circulation systems. Specifically, the performance estimation method for the mixers of the rotor-stator type includes the steps of: obtaining the homogenization index: H.I. for each of the mixers, measuring the size of each of the mixers, the power requirements and flow rates during the running time of each of the mixers, estimating the magnitude (smallness or greatness) of the configuration dependent term value of each of the mixer as a whole which is specific to each of the mixers, and estimating the performance of each of the mixers accordingly.

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Odawara, Japan

Tetsu Kamiya