Kao Corporation

Tomoshige Umeda

Kazuya Otsuji

Yoshihisa Katsuragi

Toru Yoshihara

Hideki Mori

Takuji Yasukawa

Yuki Mitsui

Kenichi Ono

Koji Mimura

Susumu Fujinami

Tsutomu Nishide

Takeshi Yasumasu

Yoshinobu Nakajima

Wataru Okawa

Masayuki Okawa

Shigeyuki Ono

Takeshi Ban

Shuji Ishikawa

Daisuke Yasumura

Hideki Yokomichi

Susumu Yamasawa

Hirokazu Kokumai

Yasuhiro Miura

Tsutomu Mitsuhashi

Akiko Onodera

Seiji Nomura

Sachiyo Mizuuchi

Tsutomu Shiba

A pet body fat measuring tool and method for measuring pet body fat by measuring a bioelectrical impedance includes an electrode body including at least two current electrodes and at least two voltage electrodes. The electrode body is pressed to a part of a pet body. The tool also includes a control calculating unit having an impedance measuring circuit connected to the electrode body to control a current made to flow at a time of measurement. The control calculating unit includes, in advance of the measurement, a direct correlation between a body fat percentage of a pet body and the bioelectrical impedance of the pet body to calculate the body fat percentage based on only a bioelectrical impedance determined from measured voltages. A distance between each of the current electrodes and each of the voltage electrode is fixed.

Pet body fat measuring tool

A heat generating unit is incorporated in a mask in order to actively supply warm steam, and also drug vapor, to the nose and throat, and moisturize the upper respiratory tract. It is preferable that a metal powder, salt, and water be contained in the heat generating unit, and that an exothermic composition that releases steam in conjunction with the oxidation reaction of the metal powder be used therein. It is preferable that either an inhalation valve or exhalation valve be provided in the main mask body.

Mask

A steam-generating unit that is applied to the skin or the mucous membranes has a steam-generating part that employs chemical energy, and the surface applied to the skin or mucous membranes is made from a moisture-permeable sheet. The temperature of the steam generated by the steam-generating part and released from the surface of the steam-generating unit is kept to 50&deg; C. or lower. Steam that is as safe as that from a steam towel can be easily and continuously supplied to the skin and mucous membranes by this steam-generating unit.

Steam-generating pad

A method of the concentration of acidic phospholipids is disclosed, which comprises a first step wherein lecithin originating in a plant is treated with a solvent containing from 85 to 100% by weight of a lower alcohol and then eliminating the solvent fraction containing said lower alcohol to thereby give a phospholipid mixture, and a second step wherein said phospholipid mixture is treated by using an aqueous solution containing 75% by weight or less of ethanol. In the method of the present invention, the water-soluble components contained in the phospholipid mixture obtained in the first step are efficiently removed in the second step. Thus a lipid mixture containing acidic phospholipids at a high concentration can be relatively easily obtained from the lecithin originating in a plant. This lipid mixture is useful as an emulsifier or a taste modifier.

Method of concentration of acidic phospholipid

A method for suppressing a bitter taste of material to be placed in mouth or in contact with mouth, such as foods, drinks, pharmaceuticals, comprises adding an acidic phospholipid or an acidic lysophospholipid to the material.

Method for suppressing bitter taste

A phospholipid composition which satisfies the following requirements (i) and (ii):

Phospholipid composition, fat and oil composition containing the same

A process for the prodution of phosphatiolic acid is carried out by treating phospholipids with an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing a phospholipid into phosphatidic acid and a nitrogen-containing base and another enzyme capable of hydrolyzing a phospholipid into a diglyceride and a phosphoryl base. Further, another process for the production of phosphatidic acid is carried out by treating phospholipids with a treatment product of an oilseed is disclosed.

Processes for the production of phosphatidic acid

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomoshige Umeda