baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2018511357-A (JP)
Title: 先端ばね機構を有するポール
IPC: A63B29/08
Filed: 2016-01-28
Abstract: 本発明は、ポール本体（２）を有し、ポール本体の下部自由端部に先端体（３）を備えた、ポール、特にノルディックウォーキングポール、ハイキングポール、スキーポール、クロスカントリーポール、又はウォーキングポールに関し、ポール本体の最下の管部分（６）を受け入れるための、又は、挿入要素（７）を受け入れるための中央受け入れ開口部（５ｃ）を備える、下に向かって閉鎖された端部取り付け部（４）を有し、該挿入要素（７）は、前記ポール本体の最下の管部分に上部軸方向部分（７ａ）によって受け入れられて留め付けられ、及び、前記端部取り付け部の前記中央受け入れ開口部に下部軸方向部分（７ｃ）によって受け入れられる。さらに、前記先端体は、外側円周状弾性エラストマーばね要素（９）を有し、これは、前記端部取り付け部の上端部（８）の軸方向上側に接続し、前記外側円周状弾性エラストマーばね要素は、ポール本体の前記最下の管部分か、又は前記挿入要素の中間軸方向部分（７ｂ）の周りに周方向（Ｕ）に少なくとも部分的に到達し、軸方向の力（Ｋ）がかかるときに、前記端部取り付け部（４）に対する、前記ポール本体（２）の最下の管部分（６）の、及び／又は前記挿入要素（７）の、軸方向の相対運動（Ｒ）を緩衝する。【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2017538949-A (JP)
Title: 列車，特に自動地下鉄列車の試験用ダイナミックリグ用回転ユニット，及び本ユニットを備えたリグ
IPC: B61K13/00
Filed: 2015-10-23
Abstract: 本発明は，自動地下鉄列車試験のための試験リグ（１）用の回転ユニット（８）に関し，２つの回転ベルト（２７）であって，回転ユニット（８）は，各ベルト上で列車の車輪（６）が回転し，車輪により動作が駆動される回転ベルトと，回転慣性体（２８）とを備え，各ベルトは，慣性体に回転可能に接続されているピニオン（３１）と，２つのローラ（３３）と，ローラに取り付けられ，ピニオンと噛合し，ローラ間の各車輪用の回転領域（３４）を形成する溝付き回転面（３２）を備える。【選択図】図３
Patent JP-2018510698-A (JP)
Title: 組織圧縮を測定するための重ね合わされたマルチセンサ高周波（ｒｆ）電極システム
IPC: A61B18/16
Filed: 2016-03-03
Abstract: 組織圧縮センサシステムが開示される。組織圧縮システムは、エンドエフェクタ上に位置付けられるＲＦ電極と、エンドエフェクタのアンビル又はチャネルフレームの一方の上に位置付けられる第１の電気接点と、第１の電気接点に通信可能に結合される第１のフィルタと、を含む。
Patent JP-2018509904-A (JP)
Title: 哺乳動物細胞における組換えタンパク質生産のためのビタミンならびにビタミン代謝関連の遺伝子およびタンパク質の使用
IPC: C12P21/00
Filed: 2016-04-01
Abstract: 【課題】治療用タンパク質などの目的のタンパク質を産生する哺乳動物細胞株の選択のための真核細胞発現系および方法が開示される。【解決手段】これらの系および方法は、高レベルの組換えタンパク質生産を媒介する細胞の簡単で迅速な選択を可能にする。これらの系および方法は、患者に新しい治療用タンパク質をもたらすのに必要とされる労力および時間を低減するとともに、バイオリアクター中での細胞の産生能を増加させることによって治療用タンパク質のコストを低下させる。【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2018510574-A (JP)
Title: ハイダイナミックレンジ映像のためのディスプレイマネジメント
IPC: H04N1/407
Filed: 2016-01-14
Abstract: ディスプレイマネジメントプロセッサが、リファレンスディスプレイとは異なるダイナミックレンジを有したターゲットディスプレイに表示されることになる、エンハンストダイナミックレンジを備えた入力画像を受信する。この入力画像を、まず、知覚的量子化（ＰＱ）色空間、好ましくはＩＰＴ−ＰＱ色空間へと変換する。適応的トーンマッピング関数と適応的色域マッピング関数とを含むカラーボリュームマッピング関数により、マッピング画像を生成する。ディテール保存ステップを、マッピング画像の明度成分に適用して、トーンマッピングされフィルタリングされた明度の画像を有する最終的なマッピング画像を生成する。最終的なマッピング画像を、その後、ディスプレイの好適な色空間へと変換し戻す。適応的なトーンマッピング関数および色域マッピング関数の例を提供する。
Patent JP-2018512680-A (JP)
Title: 駐車場管理方法、携帯端末及び駐車場管理システム
IPC: G06Q50/10
Filed: 2015-12-16
Abstract: 【課題】本発明は、駐車場管理方法、携帯端末及び駐車場管理システムに関するものである。【解決手段】本発明は、遠隔呼び出し要求を受信するステップと、遠隔呼び出し要求をした駐車場の管理者が用いる管理者携帯端末を識別するためのステップと、識別された管理者携帯端末に遠隔呼び出し要求をした機器との接続要求を送信するステップと、機器との接続要求に対する応答の受信に応じて管理者携帯端末と遠隔呼び出し要求をした機器との間にビデオチャンネルを設定するステップと、を含み、管理者携帯端末がビデオチャンネルを介して機器に備えられたカメラのビデオ信号を受信する駐車場管理方法、携帯端末及び駐車場管理システムに関するものである。【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2018517281-A (JP)
Title: 半導体デバイスのための高アスペクト比を有する誘電体を通る導電性パス
IPC: H01L23/12
Filed: 2016-04-19
Abstract: 半導体デバイスのために高アスペクト比を有する誘電体を通した導電性パスが説明される。１つの例において、複数の導電性接続パッドは、基板に形成された回路に接続すべく、半導体基板上に形成される。導電性材料から構成されるポストは、接続パッドのサブセットの各々の上に形成される。誘電体層は、接続パッドおよびポストの上を含む半導体基板の上に形成される。穴は、ポストの直上の誘電体層を除去することにより形成される。形成された穴は、導電性材料で充填され、コネクタは各々の充填された穴の上に形成される。
Patent JP-2018514536-A (JP)
Title: グルホシネートおよびインダジフラムを含む除草剤組み合わせ
IPC: A01N25/04
Filed: 2016-04-25
Abstract: 本発明は主として、（ｉ）グルホシネートおよび／またはそれの塩および（ｉｉ）インダジフラムを含む具体的な除草剤組み合わせ、ならびに前記具体的な除草剤組み合わせを含む組成物に関する。本発明はさらに、前記具体的な除草剤組み合わせおよび前記具体的な除草剤組み合わせを含む組成物に関するものである。本発明はさらに、農業分野での、特には植物成長調節剤としての、および有害植物または望ましくない植物成長の防除のための、前記具体的な除草剤組み合わせを含む前記具体的な除草剤組み合わせおよび組成物の使用、ならびに相当する方法に関するものである。
Patent JP-2018515583-A (JP)
Title: 抗ＣＤ２０抗体のＢｃｌ−２阻害剤及びＭＤＭ２阻害剤との併用療法
IPC: A61K45/06
Filed: 2016-05-23
Abstract: 本発明は、がんの治療のための抗ＣＤ２０抗体とＢｃｌ−２阻害剤及びＭＤＭ２阻害剤との併用療法、特にＣＤ２０を発現するがんとＩ型抗ＣＤ２０抗体又はアフコシル化ヒト化Ｂ−Ｌｙ１抗体とＢｃｌ−２阻害剤及びＭＤＭ２阻害剤との併用療法に関する。【選択図】図２
Patent JP-2018522334-A (JP)
Title: モジュール間挙動検証
IPC: G06F11/07
Filed: 2016-04-28
Abstract: 様々な態様のシステム、方法、およびデバイスは、モジュール間挙動検証の方法を可能にする。システムの複数の観測器モジュールは、システムの被観測モジュールの1つまたは複数の挙動を観測し得る。観測器モジュールの各々は、被観測モジュールの1つまたは複数の挙動に基づく挙動表現を生成し得る。各観測器モジュールは、挙動表現を各観測器モジュールに適した挙動分類器モデルに適用し得る。観測器モジュールは、観測器モジュールの各々によって決定された被観測モジュールの挙動の分類をアグリゲートし得る。観測器モジュールは、アグリゲートされた分類に基づいて、被観測モジュールが異常に挙動しているかどうかを決定し得る。
Patent JP-2019125067-A (JP)
Title: Motor drive control device and machine tool provided with the same
Inventor: NAGANO TOSHITAKA
IPC: G05B19/4061
Filed: 2018-01-15
Abstract: To provide a motor drive control device capable of shortening a measurement time by a machine tool by improving a movement speed during contact regardless of a configuration in which a movement object and a contact object are formed of a rigid body, and also reducing damage of the machine tool during interference by shortening a braking distance during deceleration control, and a machine tool provided with the motor drive control device.SOLUTION: A motor drive control device 1A for driving and controlling a motor of a machine tool 10 including a first shaft for moving a movement object and a second shaft having a movement direction component along the movement direction of the first shaft includes: a contact state signal acquisition part for acquiring a contact state signal between the movement object and a contact object; a deceleration control start determination part for determining whether to start deceleration control of the movement object on the basis of the contact state signal; and a drive control part for performing deceleration control of the first shaft and driving and controlling the second shaft in the direction of separating the movement object from the contact object in the case of starting the deceleration control.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2019123907-A (JP)
Title: Water electrolysis apparatus
Inventor: MITSUDA NAOKI
IPC: C25B9/19
Filed: 2018-01-17
Abstract: To sweep away such a concern that a seal member for sealing a cathode is damaged even if high pressure hydrogen is generated in a water electrolysis apparatus.SOLUTION: A differential pressure-type high-pressure water electrolysis apparatus 10 has a large O-ring 72 as a seal member for sealing a cathode side, and a pressure proof member 74 surrounding the large O-ring 72 from the outside. The pressure proof member 74 has a first projection 82 including a membrane contact face 86 projecting toward the large O-ring 72, and contacting an electrolyte membrane 40 on an inner peripheral wall side facing the large O-ring 72, and a seal contact face 88 contacted by the large O-ring 72 pressed by hydrogen generated on a cathode electrode catalyst layer 44a. The pressure proof member 74 may share the seal contact face 88 with the first projection 82, and may have a second projection 84 including a separator contact face 90 contacting a cathode side separator 34. In this case, a concavity 80 is formed between the first projection 82 and the second projection 84.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5
Patent JP-2019130732-A (JP)
Title: Image processing system, image processing method and ink jet recording device
Inventor: TORIGOE MAKOTO
IPC: B41J2/01
Filed: 2018-01-30
Abstract: To provide an image processing method by which granular feeling and streak unevenness which are specific to ink jet recording are so made as to be not conspicuous.SOLUTION: Whether an image of a processing object is a concerned image such that granular feeling is concerned during viewing or not is determined. In addition, color decomposition treatment, such that a gradation region, in which an ink having a low brightness is used when it is determined that the image is a concerned image, is a gradation region having a brightness lower than that of a gradation region in which the ink is used when it is determined that the image is not a concerned image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5
Patent JP-2018130766-A (JP)
Title: Extrusion press and method for controlling extrusion press
Inventor: YAMAMOTO TAKEJI
IPC: B21C31/00
Filed: 2018-01-30
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an extrusion press that can run an energy-saving operation.SOLUTION: An extrusion press includes: a hydraulic pump 41; a motor 31 subject to inverter control or servo control and driving the hydraulic pump; and a control device. The control device starts the motor 31 at a preset prescribed accelerating time and stops the motor at a preset prescribed deceleration time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2018065012-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: OSHIMI WATARU
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2018-02-01
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of inhibiting a lock from being fraudulently unlocked in the game machine including a locking device for locking an opening/closing body in a closed state with respect to a support frame.SOLUTION: A pachinko machine includes an outer frame 11, an inner frame 13 provided at the outer frame 11 and rotationally supported by one side of the outer frame 11, and a locking device 500 disposed at a rotational-turning tip end side of the inner frame 13 and locking the inner frame 13 with respect to the outer frame 11. The locking device 500 includes an inner-frame hook member 620 disposed at a front side of the inner frame 13 and projecting rearward through a slit 303 formed at the inner frame 13. The inner-frame hook member 620 is hooked to a hook reception member 350 provided at the outer frame 11, so that the inner frame 13 is locked. The hook reception member 350 includes a base plate part 355 as an attachment part to an installation surface 382 of the outer frame 11, and a tip end of the base plate part 355 is fixed, with it projecting forward the front end of the installation surface 382.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 29
Patent JP-2018087998-A (JP)
Title: Mask blank, method for producing transfer mask, and method for producing semiconductor device
Inventor: SHISHIDO HIROAKI
IPC: G03F1/32
Filed: 2018-02-06
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mask blank that can form even a fine transfer pattern of 80 nm or less in pattern dimension with high accuracy.SOLUTION: A mask blank 10 has a light semi-transmissive film 2 and a light blocking film 3 put on a translucent substrate 1 in the stated order. The light semi-transmissive film 2 contains silicon, and the light blocking film 3 consists of only a laminated structure of a lower layer 31 and an upper layer 33 and contains chromium. The upper layer 33 has a chromium content of 65 atom% or more and an oxygen content of less than 20 atom%, and the lower layer 31 has a chromium content of less than 60 atom% and an oxygen content of 20 atom% or more. The upper layer 33 is 1.5 nm or more and 8 nm or less in thickness, with a transmittance of light in at least part of a wavelength range of 800-900 nm in the laminated structure of the light semi-transmissive film 2 and the light blocking film 3 being 50% or less.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2019139033-A (JP)
Title: Imaging system
Inventor: KAZAMA KIKUO
IPC: H04N5/235
Filed: 2018-02-09
Abstract: To provide an imaging device and a movable light emitting device that are capable of emitting light optimally even when an illuminated condition of an object to be imaged by an imaging device is changed during the traveling of a moving body having light emission means.SOLUTION: When a field angle of an imaging device changes during traveling of a moving body (S705), first field angle correction means and second field angle correction means are performed if a change in the field angle is a first threshold or more, and if the change in the field angle is the first threshold or less and a second threshold or more, the second field angle correction means is performed (S706).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7
Patent JP-2019138535-A (JP)
Title: refrigerator
Inventor: TSUFUKU MASAYASU
IPC: F25D23/06
Filed: 2018-02-09
Abstract: To provide a refrigerator which can fix a grip while preventing damage on a vacuum heat insulation material.SOLUTION: A refrigerator 100 includes: an outer case 10; an inner case 20; urethane foam filled between the outer case 10 and the inner case 20; a vacuum heat insulation material 50 provided on an inner wall surface of a rear plate; and a grip 30 fixed to the rear plate 14. Cutout holes 14m are formed on both left and right sides of an upper end of the rear plate 14. On an edge of the cutout hole 14m, a fastening part for fixing the grip 30 with a screw is provided. The grip 30 has a fitting insertion region located further on the front surface side than a cutout surface of the rear plate 14. Out of the fitting insertion region, the lowermost end part is lower than the lowermost end part of the fastening part and faces the vacuum heat insulation material 50.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8
Patent JP-2019139068-A (JP)
Title: Display device and display control device
Inventor: SHIRAKI TORU
IPC: G01D7/00
Filed: 2018-02-09
Abstract: To provide a display device capable of displaying an amount of excess and to provide a display control device.SOLUTION: A display device 100 includes: a numerical value acquisition part 121; a display part 110; an excess determination part 122; and a display control part 123. The numerical value acquisition part 121 acquires a current value of a varying numerical value. The display part 110 displays a current value area 10 extended linearly with length following magnitude of the current value. The excess determination part 122 determines whether the current value exceeds a threshold. The display control part 123 sets an excess range 12 exceeding a threshold to be in a display color differing from that of a normal range 11 below the threshold in the current value area 10 when the excess determination part 122 determines that the threshold is exceeded.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2018104451-A (JP)
Title: Purine derivatives useful as hsp90 inhibitors
Inventor: CHIOSIS GABRIELA
IPC: C07D473/34
Filed: 2018-02-15
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide compounds useful as inhibitors of HSP90, and hence in the treatment of related diseases.SOLUTION: The present invention provides substituted purine derivatives and related compounds of the formulas shown.SELECTED DRAWING: None
Patent JP-2019143479-A (JP)
Title: Electric blower and vacuum cleaner
Inventor: FUJIWARA RYOYA
IPC: A47L9/00
Filed: 2018-02-15
Abstract: To provide an electric blower capable of widening a designable range of a fan blade, while suppressing adhesive failure between a shaft and a centrifugal fan, and to provide a vacuum cleaner including the same.SOLUTION: An electric blower has an electric motor including a shaft 26. The electric blower has a centrifugal fan 14 which is fixed to the shaft 26 by an adhesive agent and rotated together with the shaft 26. The centrifugal fan 14 includes a fan body part 51, a fixing part 52, and a groove part 53 for air vent of the adhesive agent. The fan body part 51 has a fan blade 55 on the opposite side from the electric motor. The fixing part 52 is provided on the electric motor side of the fan body part 51, and one end part of the shaft 26 is inserted and abutted against it. The groove part 53 is provided around the shaft 26 at the fixing part 52.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2018113697-A (JP)
Title: Image processing device, image processing method, program and record medium
Inventor: IKEDA YU
IPC: H04N19/86
Filed: 2018-02-19
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure appropriate filtering in a deblocking filtering process.SOLUTION: A conventional deblocking filtering process causes a significant change in pixel values p0in a manner that shifts the pixel values before a deblocking filtering process represented by 255 (a solid line) to the same after the deblocking filtering process represented by 159 (a dotted line). By applying a clip process with a clip value of 10 to an enhanced filtering process, an image processing method can minimize the change in the pixel values p0in a manner that shifts the pixel values before the deblocking filtering process represented by 255 (a solid line) to the same after the deblocking filtering process represented by 245 (a heavy line). The image processing method can be applied to, for example, an image processing device.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 21
Patent JP-2019143513-A (JP)
Title: Exhaust emission control device of internal combustion engine and exhaust emission control method for internal combustion engine
Inventor: ANODA HIROSHI
IPC: F01N3/08
Filed: 2018-02-19
Abstract: To provide an exhaust emission control device of an internal combustion engine and an exhaust emission control method for the internal combustion engine each of which can solve such a problem that, in filter regeneration, a time up to the filter regeneration becomes long, and can remove the risk that a NOx discharge amount is increased involved in the elongation of the time, while avoiding such a problem that a reductant which is adsorbed to an SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) catalyst of an SCR device is desorbed and discharged in a short period of time, and flows down to a downstream side of the SCR device in a large amount.SOLUTION: The exhaust emission control device determines whether or not an estimated reductant adsorption amount Se of a selective reduction-type catalyst device 24 at a start of regeneration is equal to or more than a preset target reductant adsorption amount St at a start of the regeneration of a filter for combusting and removing PM (Particulate Matter) of a filter device 22, and when the estimated reductant adsorption amount Se is equal to or more than the target reductant adsorption amount St, the exhaust emission control device performs adsorption reductant consumption control for reducing an adsorption reductant in the selective reduction-type catalyst device 24 so that the estimated reductant adsorption amount Se of the selective reduction-type catalyst device 24 becomes smaller than the target reductant adsorption amount St.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3
Patent JP-2019143722-A (JP)
Title: High pressure tank and its manufacturing method
Inventor: KANEZAKI TOSHIHIKO
IPC: B29C70/68
Filed: 2018-02-21
Abstract: To eliminate a concern about closing of a circulation passage formed on a mouth piece constituting a high pressure tank.SOLUTION: A high pressure tank 10 includes a supply/discharge hole 16, and a mouth piece 18 provided with a mouth piece-side path 62. The mouth piece-side path 62 is communicated to a plug-side path 66 of a plug 64 inserted to an insertion hole 60. First exclusion coatings 90a, 90b are disposed on a liner-side end face 34 facing a resin liner 12, of a flange portion 30 constituting the mouth piece 18, or a flange portion opposite outer face 40 facing the flange portion 30, of the liner 12. The first exclusion coatings 90a, 90b are composed of a material repelling a matrix resin of a fiber reinforcement resin constituting a reinforcement layer 14.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
Patent JP-2018086414-A (JP)
Title: Game machine
Inventor: ICHIHARA TAKAAKI
IPC: A63F7/02
Filed: 2018-02-23
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which can prevent an unnecessary operation of a contact type input device provided in the game machine.SOLUTION: A game machine includes a first display device which, on a game board, varies multiple decorative patterns, and then stops and displays them, and displays a predetermined performance image, a second display device which can display a predetermined performance image on a door frame, a contact type input device which can be operated by a player, and a light-emitting device provided between the first display device and the second display device. When the contact type input device is in a state in which it can accept an input operation by the player, the light-emitting device is lighted. This enables the player to surely know the establishment of the state in which the input operation by the player can be accepted.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 143
Patent JP-2019143952-A (JP)
Title: Outdoor machine and air conditioner
Inventor: ICHIKIZAKI WATARU
IPC: F24F1/56
Filed: 2018-02-23
Abstract: To provide an outdoor machine of an air conditioner capable of being easily transported regardless of a place where transportation is performed, and an air conditioner comprising the outdoor machine.SOLUTION: An outdoor machine comprises: a heat exchanger 3 through which refrigerant from an indoor machine 101 circulates; a fan 2 provided near the heat exchanger 3, and configured to exhaust air after heat exchange with the heat exchanger 3; a housing 5 housing the heat exchanger 3 and the fan 2; and a plurality of handles 6 provided in pairs in a depth direction Y of the housing 5 at each of one end in a width direction X of the housing 5 and the other end in the width direction X. In at least one of the one end in the width direction X and the other end in the width direction X, the plurality of pairs of handles 6 provided in pairs in the depth direction Y are provided at positions separated in a height direction Z.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Patent JP-2019147218-A (JP)
Title: Cutting method
Inventor: WATANABE HIROSHI
IPC: B23B1/00
Filed: 2018-02-27
Abstract: To provide a cutting method capable of achieving both high efficiency of a cutting work and improvement of a tool life.SOLUTION: A cutting method cuts a workpiece W with an end face 54 of an annular tool 50 as a flank face with the use of an annular tool 50 having an annular cutting edge 55 with an outer peripheral surface 53 as a rake face, in which the workpiece W contains alumina, and the cutting method performs a cutting work while coating the cutting edge 55 with alumina contained in the workpiece during the cutting work.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4A
Patent JP-2019146918-A (JP)
Title: Disposable wearing article
Inventor: YAMAMOTO SHOHEI
IPC: A61F13/475
Filed: 2018-02-28
Abstract: To provide standing gathers which are likely to be in an appropriate wearing state when worn.SOLUTION: A standing part 68 of standing gathers 60 has a main area 68Z which has a first part 60A extending to a center side in a width direction and a second part 60B extending outside in a width direction from the end of the first part 60A in the middle of a back and forth direction LD including a crotch part and has a support area 68P composed only of the third part 60C extending to the center side in the width direction between the main area 68Z and a fall down part 67B. The main area 68Z has first gather elastic members 63a fitted at an end part of at least the second part 60B along the back and forth direction LD. The support area 68P has a second gather elastic member 63b fitted to an end part of at least the third part 60C along the back and forth direction LD. A base end side of the third part 60C is a non-elastic part 69. The third part 60C has a layer following the second part 60B of the main area 68Z.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9
Patent JP-2018102309-A (JP)
Title: Taste improvement agent for food/beverage product
Inventor: NAKANISHI SHINO
IPC: A23L27/00
Filed: 2018-02-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a taste improvement agent that can, by adding an extremely small amount to a food material such as cacao bean-containing food/beverage product, greatly enhance the taste thickness, body feeling and the like which said food material possesses, and that is free from unpleasant taste, can achieve improvement in balance, and in addition is improved in the state of the product, and can easily and inexpensively be prepared.SOLUTION: Provided is a method for producing taste improvement agent comprising a step in which the extract of cacao raw material is adjusted to pH 6 to pH 12, followed by heat treatment at 100°C to 180°C for 10 minutes to 5 hours to obtain a heat-treated product and in which the raw material of said cacao is a cacao bean unprocessed product or processed product, and the heat-treated product has a ratio of a value (A) obtained when the OD680 of a diluted solution thereof is measured to a corresponding value (B) of a pH non-adjusted heat-treated product, (A/B), of 0.88 or less.SELECTED DRAWING: None