Patents Assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250143378
    Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generation system provided with: a storage unit that has an internal space and an opening through which the internal space is communicated with the outside; at least one detection unit that emits light toward the internal space and detects received reflected light; and a control unit that determines whether or not an article inserted into the storage unit is a base material containing an aerosol source on the basis of the intensities of a plurality of reflected lights detected by the at least one detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi FUJIKI
  • Publication number: 20250143363
    Abstract: This reconstituted tobacco raw material production device comprises a die that discharges a reconstituted tobacco raw material in a sheet-like shape, and a take-up device that takes up the sheet-like reconstituted tobacco raw material discharged from the die. The take-up device has a pair of first driving rollers that sandwich the sheet-like reconstituted tobacco raw material, and is configured so as to take up the sheet-like reconstituted tobacco raw material while tension is being applied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Kotaro SENDA
  • Publication number: 20250134165
    Abstract: Provided is an inhalation device which includes a housing unit which is capable of housing a stick-type base material in an inner space thereof, a first detection unit that emits light into the inner space and detects reflected light received, and a control unit that makes a determination concerning a deposit attached to the housing unit, on the basis of a first detection value corresponding to the amount of received light of reflected light detected by the first detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi FUJIKI
  • Publication number: 20250134176
    Abstract: An inhaler device including: a container capable of accommodating a stick substrate in an internal space; a first detector that radiates light to the internal space and detects reflected light received; and a second detector that detects an action of a user to the inhaler device; a controller that performs a determination on a state of the container in accordance with a first detection value corresponding to an intensity of reflected light detected by the first detector; and a memory that stores a correction value used to calculate the first detection value by correcting a second detection value indicating an intensity of reflected light detected by the first detector, wherein the controller controls a process of, when a predetermined detection result is obtained by the second detector, calculating the correction value and storing the correction value in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi FUJIKI
  • Publication number: 20250134172
    Abstract: Provided is a non-combustion heating-type flavor inhalation product which comprises chip paper that joins a cigarette rod and an adjacent member adjacent thereto. The MD direction of the chip paper is substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the non-combustion heating-type flavor inhalation product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Mayuko KOBAYASHI, Yusuke NAGAMATSU, Takeo TSUTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20250136340
    Abstract: Packaging that accommodates a tobacco product, and has a region that exhibits antibacterial properties and/or antiviral properties on at least a part of the surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki ENDO
  • Publication number: 20250134175
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply configured to supply power to a load that atomizes an aerosol source; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the power supply; a controller; and a circuit board. The circuit board includes: a first surface; a second surface; a power supply layer in which a power supply path is formed; and a ground layer. The power supply layer and the ground layer are provided between the first surface and the second surface. The temperature sensor is mounted on the second surface, and at least one of the power supply path and the ground path is not formed in a region which overlaps the temperature sensor as viewed from a first direction, the first direction being a direction in which the first surface and the second surface are opposed to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro ONO, Minoru KITAHARA, Shujiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20250127210
    Abstract: A non-combustion heating type flavor inhalation article comprising a wrapping material for joining a tobacco rod and an adjacent member adjacent to the tobacco rod, wherein the wrapping material includes a tip paper having a CD direction that is substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the article, a region X in which the total basis weight of the wrapping material in the radial direction is 40-110 g/m2 is present on the article, and the X occupies 20-100% of the circumferential area of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Mayuko KOBAYASHI, Hiroyoshi ONO
  • Publication number: 20250127209
    Abstract: A wrapper for a non-combustion-heated flavor inhalation article comprising a base paper that has a basis weight of at least 40 g/m2 and contains not more than 10 wt % of a filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke NAGAMATSU, Takeo TSUTSUMI, Mayuko KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20250120446
    Abstract: An aerosol generation device including an accommodation space that accommodates an aerosol-generating base material, a heat-insulating structural body that has a cylindrical structure and that faces the accommodation space at an inner-side surface of the cylindrical structure, a heat-generating part that is provided to part of the inner-side surface of the heat-insulating structural body, and a temperature detection unit that is provided inside the heat-insulating structural body in correspondence to the heat-generating part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro TATSUTA
  • Patent number: 12274307
    Abstract: An is an aerosol generating device which is capable of generating an aerosol at an appropriate timing includes: a power source which supplies power in order to atomize an aerosol source and/or heat a flavor source; a sensor which outputs a measurement value for controlling the power supplied; and a controller which controls the power supplied on the basis of the measurement value. The controller controls a power supply amount from the power source to be a first value when the measured value is equal to or larger than a first threshold and smaller than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and the power supply amount to be larger than the first value when the measured value is equal to or larger than the second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Nakano, Manabu Yamada, Hajime Fujita
  • Patent number: 12274312
    Abstract: A power supply unit is for an inhalation device and is controlled so as to flexibly respond to the detection of a temperature anomaly in the controller. A power supply unit is provided to an inhalation device and includes; a battery; a controller that controls the charging operation of the battery as well as the discharging operation f the battery when the source of an inhalation component is vaporized or atomized; and a temperature measurer that measures the temperature of the controller. The controller causes the temperature measurer to measure the temperature of the controller in a first cycle during the charging operation and in a second cycle during the discharging operation, and assesses the temperature state of the power supply unit in accordance with the measurement results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventor: Takeshi Akao
  • Publication number: 20250107572
    Abstract: An aerosol generating apparatus includes a load that generates heat upon receipt of electric power from a power supply and atomizes an aerosol source, an element that is used to acquire a value related to a temperature of the load, a retention unit that retains an aerosol source supplied from a storage to allow the retained aerosol source to be in a feasible state of being heated by the load, and a control unit configured to perform a control to increase a retaining quantity of the retained aerosol source or a control to improve the possibility of increasing the retaining quantity, at at least one of a time of starting a supply of the electric power from to the load and a time of completing the supply of the electric power to the load, upon detection of a dry state or a sign of the dry state
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki TSUJI, Hajime FUJITA, Takuma NAKANO
  • Patent number: 12262752
    Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generation device that supplies electric power to a load that generates aerosol including a sensor that is in an operating state among a normal state and a plurality of abnormal states, and detects an aerosol generation request while the power supply unit is in an active state, a control unit that detects a state of the sensor, and generates an error signal capable of distinguishing between a first and second abnormal states when the sensor is in at least one of the first and second abnormal states included in the plurality of abnormal states, and a notification unit that makes a notification in a different mode for each type of the error signal, wherein the control unit causes the power supply unit to undergo a transition from the active state to a sleep state after generating the error signal, and the plurality of abnormal states include a state in which supply of electric power to the load is unnecessary for detection by the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Akao, Manabu Yamada, Hiroshi Tezuka
  • Publication number: 20250098757
    Abstract: A non-combustion heating type flavor inhalation article includes: an aerosol-generating segment; and a mouthpiece segment adjacent to the aerosol-generating segment. The mouthpiece segment includes a filter material, and a breakable capsule within the filter material, the breakable capsule having a single-layered core-shell structure. The capsule is spherical or approximately spherical with a diameter of 3.0 mm to 4.5 mm. The capsule has a stress of 2 N or more and 6 N or less against a displacement of 0.5 mm within 4 minutes from 10 minutes of storage under a condition of 45° C. and 90% RH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto AKAI
  • Publication number: 20250089807
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flavor inhaler or similar configured such that when heating for generating a flavor or similar using power from a power supply is restricted, the restriction is not released if the remaining capacity of the power supply is insufficient. Provided is a device that is a flavor inhaler or an aerosol generation device comprising a heater that is configured to heat one or both of a flavor source and an aerosol source, a power supply that supplies power to the heater, and a control unit that is configured to restrict the heating by the heater when the remaining capacity of the power supply is insufficient, wherein the control unit is further configured such that, when the heating by the heater is restricted, the control unit releases the restriction on the basis of a prescribed condition being fulfilled after the start of charging of the power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsunari AOYAMA, Toru NAGAHAMA, Junji MINATO
  • Publication number: 20250091995
    Abstract: The present invention provides a crystal of 6-(3-chloro-2-fluorobenzyl)-1-[(S)-1-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpropyl]-7-methoxy-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid, which shows a particular powder X-ray diffraction pattern of a characteristic diffraction peaks at diffraction angles 2?(°) as measured by powder X-ray diffractometry. The crystal of the present invention is superior in physical and chemical stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Motohide SATOH, Takahisa MOTOMURA, Takashi MATSUDA, Kentaro KONDO, Koji ANDO, Koji MATSUDA, Shuji MIYAKE, Hideto UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20250085840
    Abstract: An information processing device including a control unit that controls a customization process including setting a parameter relating to the temperature to which an aerosol source is heated or accepting setting of an evaluation for an aerosol generated on the basis of control information reflecting the set parameter, the control unit generating a display image for displaying a mark that indicates the parameter set in the customization process in a prior instance and a mark that indicates the parameter set in the customization process in a current instance, and/or displaying and a mark that indicates the evaluation set in the customization process in the prior instance and a mark that indicates the evaluation set in the customization process in the current instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Manabu YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20250082003
    Abstract: This manufacturing device for reconstituted tobacco raw material has a die for discharging the reconstituted tobacco raw material as a sheet, and a temperature adjustment device for adjusting the temperature of the reconstituted tobacco raw material that passes through the die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Kotaro SENDA
  • Publication number: 20250079867
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device that generates an aerosol by heating an aerosol source, the power supply unit including: a power supply; a connector electrically connectable to an external power supply; a first load; a charging IC including an input terminal connected to the connector, a charging terminal connected to the power supply, and an output terminal connected to the first load, and configured to convert electric power input to the input terminal and output the converted electric power from the charging terminal; and a discharge path configured to connect the power supply and a second load without passing through the charging IC, in which the charging IC is configured to supply electric power input from the power supply to the charging terminal to the first load via the output terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsunari AOYAMA, Hiroshi KAWANAGO, Toru NAGAHAMA, Takashi FUJIKI, Ryo YOSHIDA