Patents Assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc.
  • Patent number: 11963555
    Abstract: The present invention provides a controller for an inhalation device, comprising: a power supplier configured to supply power to a heater used to heat and atomize an aerosol source; a detection circuit configured to detect a resistance value of the heater; and a processor configured to execute heating processing of heating the aerosol source by controlling the power supplier in accordance with reception of an atomization request of the aerosol source, wherein the processor controls the heating processing based on the resistance value of the heater detected using the detection circuit, a reference temperature of the heater, and a reference resistance value of the heater, and updates the reference resistance value by the resistance value of the heater detected using the detection circuit after an end of the heating processing and before the reception of the next atomization request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventor: Keiji Marubashi
  • Publication number: 20240122236
    Abstract: Provided is a heated tobacco segment comprising, as packing, tobacco material and paper in which the total content of lignin and hemicellulose is 0.1-10 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Hajime NISHINO, Moeka NAGAYAMA, Daisuke NANJO
  • Publication number: 20240122230
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a flavoring-loaded component for a tobacco product includes a component for a tobacco product and a flavoring composition that is loaded on the component and includes a flavoring and an emulsifier that has an HLB of 1-7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro TOKUNAGA, Yuta Okamoto, Naoya Tsuruoka, Tetsuya Motodamari, Yasuhiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20240122247
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generating device includes a power supply, a heater connector connected to a heater, a voltage conversion IC, a circuit board, a capacitor, a first ground provided inside the circuit board and connected to the other end of the capacitor, a second ground provided inside the circuit board, insulated from the first ground inside the circuit board, and connected to the detection terminal, and a common ground configured to electrically connect the first ground and the second ground. On the second surface, no electronic component is provided in a common ground projection region overlapping with the common ground when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsunari AOYAMA, Hiroshi KAWANAGO, Toru NAGAHAMA, Takashi FUJIKI, Ryo YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240122260
    Abstract: An inhaler device configured to consume an accumulated capacity to contribute to generation of aerosol or aerosol imparted with flavor, a sensor configured to detect a predefined variable, an interface configured to make a notification to an inhaler of the aerosol, and a controller configured to cause the interface to function in a first mode when a detected or estimated capacity is smaller than a threshold and the variable satisfies a predefined condition for requesting the generation of the aerosol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Manabu TAKEUCHI, Hirofumi MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240122235
    Abstract: A flavor inhalation article 1 comprises: a flavor element 2 which is heated without involving combustion; and a tubular element 4 which forms an airflow channel. The tubular element 4 is equipped with a cylindrical hollow paper tube 26 and a paper liner 28 disposed inside the paper tube 26 in such a manner as to lie along the axial direction X of the paper tube 26. The total of the cross-sectional length of the liner 28 in the diametrical direction Y of the paper tube 26 is greater than the inner diameter d of the paper tube 26.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsuya MOTODAMARI
  • Patent number: 11957103
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an F1 hybrid or a portion thereof, and use of the F1 hybrid or a portion thereof. The F1 hybrid of the present invention is an F1 hybrid between Nicotiana umbratica and Nicotiana kawakamii.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventor: Shun Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11957177
    Abstract: A smoking system includes a consumable containing a smokable substance and a device that includes a chamber receiving the consumable and heats and atomizes the smokable substance of the consumable received in the chamber. The chamber includes an opening through which the consumable is inserted and a holding unit that holds the consumable. The holding unit includes a first pressing unit which presses a part of the consumable. The consumable includes a first portion having a first hardness and a second portion having a second hardness, in which the second portion is a different portion from the first portion in the insertion direction of the consumable. When the consumable is positioned at the desired position in the chamber, the consumable is positioned such that at least a part of the first portion is pressed against the first pressing unit, while at the same time, at least a part of the second portion is pressed against the first pressing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Yasunobu Inoue, Tateki Sumii
  • Patent number: 11960634
    Abstract: To provide a mechanism that allows a user to have a novel inhalation experience, terminal equipment is provided that includes a communication unit that transmits inhalation information including information showing a location where a user is inhaling using an inhalation device and receives virtual space information that defines a virtual space created on the basis of the inhalation information; and a control unit that outputs from an output unit the virtual space defined by the virtual space information received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Serita, Masatoshi Senju
  • Publication number: 20240114966
    Abstract: An aerosol generating system including a holder unit that can house, in the interior space thereof, an aerosol source-containing substrate; and an electromagnetic induction source that generates a fluctuating magnetic field in the aforesaid interior space using an alternating current and heats the aerosol source by inductive heating due to the fluctuating magnetic field, wherein the electromagnetic induction source comprises a first layer, a conductor layer that is formed on one surface of the first layer and generates the fluctuating magnetic field, and a second layer that is formed on the aforesaid surface of the first layer so as to cover the conductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takafumi IZUMIYA, Kazutoshi SERITA, Reijiro KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 11956878
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology comprise a method and system for induction heating. The system may provide a first induction coil wrapped around a metal cylinder and a second induction coil wrapped around the metal cylinder. The first induction coil may carry a current in a first direction and the second induction coil may carry a current in an opposite, second direction. The currents may be generated in an alternating sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventor: Hideo Kondo
  • Publication number: 20240108823
    Abstract: An inhalation device including a heating unit heating a base material containing an aerosol source to generate aerosol; and a control unit controlling operation of the heating unit on the basis of a temperature setting defining a time-series transition of a target temperature which is a target value of the temperature of the heating unit, the control unit controlling, on the basis of first puff information related to puff of the aerosol by a user in a first period among periods during which one base material is heated on the basis of the temperature setting, operation of the heating unit in a second period later than the first period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventor: Hiroki NAKAAE
  • Publication number: 20240108077
    Abstract: The present invention provides a controller for a suction apparatus, that performs atomization processing of heating and atomizing an aerosol source in response to reception of an atomization request of the aerosol source, comprising: a processor configured to determine, for each of a plurality of elements used for the atomization processing, whether a residual amount is insufficient; and a display configured to display information for making a notification of an insufficient residual amount for each of the plurality of elements, wherein the display is configured to display, even in a case where the processor determines insufficient residual amounts for at least two elements among the plurality of elements, the information concerning one element selected from the at least two elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Ikuo FUJINAGA
  • Patent number: 11944126
    Abstract: An inhalation component generation device includes a load configured to vaporize or atomize an inhalation component source with electric power from a power supply, and a control unit configured to be capable of acquiring a voltage value of the power supply. The control unit is configured to be capable of estimating or detecting at least one of degradation and failure of the power supply based on a time period required for the voltage value of the power supply to reach an upper limit from a lower limit of a predetermined voltage range during charging of the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Akao, Hajime Fujita, Manabu Yamada
  • Patent number: 11944117
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a smoking article that contains, as members, at least a tobacco rod, a cooling segment, and a filter segment and in which a low-stiffness member L and a high-stiffness member H are adjacent to each other, the method includes (A) placing an adhesive on either surface of a tipping paper to form each portion of a high adhesive weight and a low adhesive weight per unit area after solidification, where the portion of a high adhesive weight is provided in a region for wrapping the member L; and (B) preparing a composite segment that contains at least the tobacco rod, the cooling segment, and the filter segment and wrapping the composite segment in the tipping paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Norio Yamamoto, Shigehiro Toyoshima
  • Publication number: 20240099361
    Abstract: A flavor source-containing rod includes: a cap member at a tip end that is opposite of a mouthpiece end; and a flavor source-filled object downstream of the cap member. The cap member includes a natural fiber-containing sheet and the sheet is disposed such that a main surface thereof is roughly parallel to the longitudinal direction of the flavor source-containing rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi SHIBUICHI
  • Publication number: 20240100275
    Abstract: A controller for an inhalation apparatus, which operates by electric power supplied from a power supply, includes a holding portion configured to hold an atomizer including a heater configured to generate flavored aerosol from a generation source of an aerosol source, a nonvolatile display; and a processor configured to control update of display of the nonvolatile display, wherein the processor determines whether to perform the update in response to occurrence of a factor for changing a remaining amount of the generation source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo FUJINAGA, Kentaro YAMADA, Hajime FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20240099394
    Abstract: A controller for an inhalation apparatus operates by electric power supplied from a chargeable power supply. The controller includes a holding portion configured to hold an atomizer including a heater configured to heat an aerosol source, a nonvolatile display configured to display an indicator concerning a remaining amount of the power supply, and a processor configured to change the indicator in a case where the remaining amount becomes smaller than a first threshold in discharging of the power supply, and to change the indicator in a case where the remaining amount becomes larger than a second threshold different from the first threshold in charging of the power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo FUJINAGA, Hajime FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20240090590
    Abstract: This inhalation device is provided with: a power source unit for supplying power; a heating unit for using power supplied from the power source unit to heat a substrate containing an aerosol source; a measurement unit for measuring a measurement value corresponding to the temperature of the heating unit; an operation unit, which is different from the heating unit, that runs on power supplied from the power source unit; and a control unit for controlling operation of the heating unit on the basis of heating settings stipulating a time series transition in a target temperature that is a target value for the temperature of the heating unit. The control unit implements correction processing to correct the measurement value in response to the start of power supply to the operation unit from the power source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Toru NAGAHAMA, Hiroshi KAWANAGO, Ryo YOSHIDA, Tatsunari AOYAMA, Takashi FUJIKI, Junji MINATO
  • Publication number: 20240090571
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flavor molded body for non-combustion heating type flavor inhalers, the flavor molded body exhibiting good handling properties, while having high strength even after use, wherein an aroma component stably volatilizes over the whole period of use. A flavor molded body for non-combustion heating type flavor inhalers, the flavor molded body containing a tobacco powder material, an adsorbent onto which a volatile aroma component is adsorbed, and an aerosol source, wherein the compression breaking strength of the flavor molded body by means of a stake plunger as determined using a tablet hardness meter is 10 N or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Ryosuke NAGASE