Patents by Inventor Hirofumi FUJIKURA

Hirofumi FUJIKURA 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).

  • Publication number: 20240111206
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first case, a second case provided in such a manner that an internal part is disposed between the first case and the second case, and a cover configured to cover an opposite side of the second case to a side facing the internal part, and a heat conductivity of the second case is higher than a heat conductivity of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Yuta FUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230254460
    Abstract: A projector includes an optical apparatus, a control circuit board disposed above an upper side of the optical apparatus, a cooling fan disposed near a rear surface outside air inlet port in a case which lies opposite to a projection direction and having an upper surface outside air inlet port configured to let in outside air from an upper surface and a lower surface outside air inlet port configured to let in outside air from a lower surface of the case, and a heat sink provided corresponding to a discharge port of the cooling fan and connected with the optical apparatus, and a flow path resistance on a side facing the lower surface outside air inlet port is smaller than a flow path resistance on a side facing the upper surface outside air inlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei MIURA, Tomoyuki UEDA, Hirofumi FUJIKURA
  • Publication number: 20230103974
    Abstract: An aerosol generation device includes a storage chamber storing an aerosol source, a heating chamber configured to heat the aerosol source, and an accommodation portion accommodating a flavor source therein. The heating chamber accommodates at least a part of a holding portion configured to transport the aerosol source stored in the storage chamber to the heating chamber and hold the aerosol source in the heating chamber, and at least a part of a first load configured to heat the aerosol source held by the holding portion to vaporize and/or atomize the aerosol source. The aerosol source and the flavor source each contain menthol. The aerosol generation device further comprises an aerosol flow path connecting the heating chamber and the accommodation chamber, and configured to transport the aerosol source vaporized and/or atomized by the first load in the heating chamber to the accommodation chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka KAIHATSU, Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Takuma NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230101245
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes a controller configured to control notifications issued by a first notification unit and a second notification unit. The controller is configured to execute a flavor determination for determining whether an aerosol source and a flavor source contain menthol, cause the first notification unit and the second notification unit to notify a user of a result of the flavor determination, when the flavor determination is executed before generation of aerosol to which the flavor of the flavor source is added, and cause only the first notification unit of the first notification unit and the second notification unit to notify the user of a result of the latest flavor determination, when the flavor determination is not executed before generation of the aerosol to which the flavor of the flavor source is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka KAIHATSU, Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Takuma NAKANO, Keiji MARUBASHI, Ikuo FUJINAGA, Hajime FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20230095903
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes a notification unit and a controller. The controller is configured to execute flavor information acquisition processing of acquiring information on whether an aerosol source and a flavor source contain menthol respectively. The controller is configured execute the flavor information acquisition processing when at least one of a change from a state in which a first load is not connected to a first connector to a state in which the first load is connected to the first connector and a change from a state in which the second load is not capable of heating the flavor source to a state in which the second load is capable of heating the flavor source is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka KAIHATSU, Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Takuma NAKANO, Keiji MARUBASHI, Ikuo FUJINAGA, Hajime FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20230097549
    Abstract: A power supply unit includes a controller. The controller is configured to determine whether an aerosol source and an flavor source contain menthol, a mode of discharging to a first heater in a first state in which it is determined that only the flavor source contains menthol is different from a mode of discharging to the first heater in a second state in which it is determined that both the aerosol source and the flavor source contain menthol and a mode of discharging to the first heater in a third state in which it is determined that only the aerosol source contains menthol, and/or a mode of discharging to a second heater in the first state is different from a mode of discharging to the second heater in the second state and a mode of discharging to the second heater in the third state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka KAIHATSU, Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Takuma NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230102556
    Abstract: An aerosol generation device includes: accommodation that accommodates a flavor source capable of adding a flavor to the aerosol source vaporized and/or atomized by heating the aerosol source with a first heater; a sensor configured to output a value related to a temperature of the flavor source, the accommodation, or a second heater; a power supply that is electrically connected to the first heater and the second heater; and a controller configured to control discharging from the power supply to the first heater and discharging from the power supply to the second heater based on an output of the sensor. The controller controls discharging to the second heater so as to cause the temperature to converge to a first target temperature, and then controls discharging to the second heater so as to cause the temperature to converge to a temperature lower than the first target temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka KAIHATSU, Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Takuma NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230089306
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes a controller configured to determine whether an aerosol source and a flavor source contain menthol, control discharging to a first heater and a second heater by a menthol mode upon determination that the aerosol source contains menthol, and control the discharging to the first heater and the second heater by a regular mode upon determination that the aerosol source and the flavor source do not contain menthol. A manner of the discharging to the first heater in the menthol mode is different from a manner of the discharging to the first heater in the regular mode, and/or a manner of the discharging to the second heater in the menthol mode is different from a manner of the discharging to the second heater in the regular mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka KAIHATSU, Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Takuma NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20230091282
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes a controller capable of controlling discharging from a power supply to a first load and a second load, and an operation unit configured to be operated by a user. The controller has a plurality of modes for operating the aerosol generation device, including a regular mode and an irregular mode, and is configured to execute first predetermined control of the aerosol generation device upon a first predetermined operation on the operation unit, operate in the regular mode upon a second predetermined operation on the operation unit, and operate in the irregular mode upon a third predetermined operation on the operation unit. A time required for the second predetermined operation and a time required for the third predetermined operation are shorter than a time required for the first predetermined operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka KAIHATSU, Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Takuma NAKANO, Keiji MARUBASHI, Ikuo FUJINAGA, Hajime FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20220071266
    Abstract: A tobacco rod for a flavor inhaler includes a cylindrical container, and a flavor source including tobacco filled in the cylindrical container, in which the flavor source is filled in such a manner as to form voids over a longitudinal direction, and the following relationship is satisfied: S/T?17%, wherein T represents an area of all voids present in a cross-section of the flavor source orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical container, and S represents a total area of voids each having an area of 800000 ?m2 or more in the cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Kaori TAKAI, Takeshi SHINKAWA, Kimitaka UCHII
  • Publication number: 20220071277
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tobacco rod for a flavor inhaler, including a plurality of rod-shaped segments connected to one another, in which each of the segments includes a cylindrical container and a flavor source including tobacco filled in the cylindrical container, the flavor source being filled in such a manner as to form, over a longitudinal direction, a channel for causing a flavor component to pass therethrough, and the channels of the segments are discontinuously connected at the connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Kaori TAKAI, Takeshi SHINKAWA, Kimitaka UCHII
  • Publication number: 20190387788
    Abstract: A smoking article provided with a filter including an aerosol generating member, a filter including a filter material and one or more filter wrappers wound around an outer circumferential surface of the filter material, and an outer wrapper wound around the outer circumferential surfaces of an end part of the aerosol generating member and the filter, wherein the outer circumferential surface of the outer wrapper has an arithmetic mean roughness of less than 2.0 ?m, and the filter wound with the outer wrapper has a compression recovery of 60% or more after a compression load of 2.5 N is applied to a range of a length of 10 mm in the diameter direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Taku HIDESHIMA, Hirofumi FUJIKURA
  • Patent number: 10372024
    Abstract: An electronic unit is provided including a heat dissipating device having a projecting heat transfer portion, a substrate on one surface side of which the heat dissipating device is disposed and in which an opening portion where the heat transfer portion is inserted is formed, an electronic part disposed on the other surface side of the substrate so that a heat dissipating surface is positioned in the opening portion and connected to the substrate via a frame-shaped connecting portion disposed with a gap between the substrate and itself, and a heat conductive member provided between the heat transfer portion and the heat dissipating surface and between an outer circumference of the heat transfer portion and an inner circumference of the connecting portion, wherein an end portion of the heat conductive member is positioned closer to the heat dissipating device than the gap between the connecting portion and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kase, Hirofumi Fujikura
  • Patent number: 10254635
    Abstract: There is provided a light source unit comprising a sealing member, a holding member on which an abutment surface is formed, which has an engaging portion and which holds a part, a case on which an abutted surface is formed which is brought into abutment with the abutment surface via the sealing member, which has an engaged portion which is brought into engagement with the engaging portion and which holds the holding member, wherein the abutment surface of the holding member and the abutted surface of the case face each other and are inclined relative to a holding surface which holds the part, and the abutted surface of the case is inclined so as to face a side where the holding member is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kase, Hirofumi Fujikura
  • Patent number: 10247405
    Abstract: A light source unit according to an embodiment includes a device holder including a semiconductor light emitting device; a holder case including an opening where the device holder is disposed; and a dustproof member including a frame-shaped dustproof portion disposed in a gap between an outer periphery of the device holder and a wall surface of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Fujikura, Kyosuke Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20180231232
    Abstract: A light source unit according to an embodiment includes a device holder including a semiconductor light emitting device; a holder case including an opening where the device holder is disposed; and a dustproof member including a frame-shaped dustproof portion disposed in a gap between an outer periphery of the device holder and a wall surface of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi FUJIKURA, Kyosuke OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180180973
    Abstract: There is provided a light source unit comprising a sealing member, a holding member on which an abutment surface is formed, which has an engaging portion and which holds a part, a case on which an abutted surface is formed which is brought into abutment with the abutment surface via the sealing member, which has an engaged portion which is brought into engagement with the engaging portion and which holds the holding member, wherein the abutment surface of the holding member and the abutted surface of the case face each other and are inclined relative to a holding surface which holds the part, and the abutted surface of the case is inclined so as to face a side where the holding member is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kase, Hirofumi Fujikura
  • Publication number: 20160344988
    Abstract: An electronic unit is provided including a heat dissipating device having a projecting heat transfer portion, a substrate on one surface side of which the heat dissipating device is disposed and in which an opening portion where the heat transfer portion is inserted is formed, an electronic part disposed on the other surface side of the substrate so that a heat dissipating surface is positioned in the opening portion and connected to the substrate via a frame-shaped connecting portion disposed with a gap between the substrate and itself, and a heat conductive member provided between the heat transfer portion and the heat dissipating surface and between an outer circumference of the heat transfer portion and an inner circumference of the connecting portion, wherein an end portion of the heat conductive member is positioned closer to the heat dissipating device than the gap between the connecting portion and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshifumi KASE, Hirofumi FUJIKURA