Patents by Inventor Manabu Yamada

Manabu Yamada 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: 20240041120
    Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generation system wherein the influence of heat from a heating unit to an inhalation device is further reduced. This aerosol generation system is provided with: an elongated heat generation unit that, when energized, generates heat to heat an aerosol generating substrate from the inside thereof; a pair of metal plates disposed to respectively cover the facing surfaces of the heat generation unit along the elongated shape; and a fixing unit that fixes the pair of metal plates to a housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240041118
    Abstract: This aerosol generation system is provided with a power supply unit for supplying electric power; and a heating unit for heating a substrate containing an aerosol source. The heating unit is inserted into the substrate and comprises: an electric resistor that generates heat using electric power supplied from the power supply unit; two electric insulators sandwiching the electric resistor; and a first rigid body and a second rigid body that differ in size and that sandwich the electric resistor and the two electric insulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240041107
    Abstract: Provided is a flavor inhaler capable of storing an object to be stored within a storage part even after the flavor inhaler is subjected to impact. The flavor inhaler is provided with: a first member and a second member that are connected to each other at peripheral portions thereof to form a storage part for storing an object to be stored, and have a substantially rectangular shape in a plan view with respect to the peripheral portions; and first connection parts for connecting the first member and the second member. The first connection parts are disposed at multiple positions spaced apart from one another in the peripheral portions of the first member and the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Yuki MASUDA, Kazuaki FUKUZAWA, Manabu YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240023619
    Abstract: A flavour inhaler includes a heater having a main surface and an end surface for heating a smokable material. The heater generates heat by the flow of current in the direction orthogonal to the main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Ryota MATSUBA, Yasunobu INOUE, Manabu YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20240000157
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an inhalation device configured to generate aerosol added with a flavor component is provided. The power supply unit includes a power supply, a power supplier configured to supply electric power from the power supply to the heater, a notification unit, and a control unit configured to control the power supplier and the notification unit. The control unit controls the power supplier in accordance with a predetermined control sequence, and controls the notification unit to make a notification of at least one timing including a timing at which an amount of the flavor component contained in the aerosol becomes a predetermined amount during an inhalation enable period determined by the control sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Tatsunari AOYAMA, Hiroshi KAWANAGO, Toru NAGAHAMA, Takashi FUJIKI, Ryo YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11862997
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply that is able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a control unit that is configured to control at least one of charging and discharging of the power supply such that the power supply does not become one or both of a fully charged state and a discharging termination state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Takeshi Akao
  • Publication number: 20230413909
    Abstract: The present invention appropriately attaches a heat-insulating material to the outside of a storage section. This flavor inhaler has a storage section for storing a consumable material, a heating element for heating the consumable material, a heat-insulating member provided to the outer periphery of the storage section, and a first tape member which is stuck to the heat-insulating member. The first tape member has a first section which extends from a first end section in the circumferential direction of the heat-insulating member, and a second section which is positioned on the heat-insulating member or extends from the heat-insulating member. The first section is stuck to the second section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Yasunobu INOUE, Hiroki NAKAAE, Manabu YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20230389606
    Abstract: A heater assembly comprises a container including a cylindrical portion that forms a chamber in which a flavor generating article is contained, and a heater arranged in a peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion. The container includes a first channel extending along a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical portion and located adjacently to the chamber in a direction intersecting with the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical portion, and a second channel extending through the chamber along the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical portion. The first channel is in communication with the second channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Manabu TAKEUCHI, Yasunobu INOUE, Kimitaka UCHII, Tateki SUMII
  • Publication number: 20230380493
    Abstract: A heat-not-burn tobacco product includes an electric heating device and a tobacco stick. The tobacco stick is provided with a tobacco rod part having a tobacco filling that includes cut tobacco and a mouthpiece coaxially connected to the tobacco rod part. The electric heating device has a hollow tube heater defined so as to form therein a heating chamber. The hollow tube heater has a compression cylinder part that compresses the tobacco rod part from the outer circumferential side when the tobacco stick is inserted, and a heating wall part that is formed by at least a part of the compression cylinder part and that heats the tobacco rod part from the outer circumferential side. The tobacco filling is wrapped with rolling paper with the cut tobacco in a randomly oriented state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE, Tateki SUMII
  • Publication number: 20230380492
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-combustion-heating-type tobacco product comprising an electric-heating-type device and a tobacco stick, the tobacco stick being provided with a tobacco rod part that has a tobacco filler including shredded tobacco, a mouthpiece part that is linked coaxially to the tobacco rod part, and a vent hole that is provided to the mouthpiece part, the electric-heating-type device having a hollow tube heater in the interior of which a heating chamber is formed. The hollow tube heater has a compression cylinder part for compressing the tobacco rod from the outer-peripheral side when the tobacco stick is inserted, and a heating wall part that is formed by at least part of the compression cylinder part and that heats the tobacco rod part from the outer-peripheral side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE, Tateki SUMII
  • Publication number: 20230380491
    Abstract: This heat-not-burn tobacco product is provided with an electric heating device and a tobacco stick. The tobacco stick is provided with: a tobacco rod part having a tobacco filler including cut tobacco; and a mouthpiece part coaxially connected to the tobacco rod part. The electric heating device has a hollow piping heater shaped to form a heating chamber in the inside thereof. The hollow piping heater has: a compression tube part that compresses the tobacco rod part from the outer circumferential side when the tobacco stick is inserted; and a heating wall part that is at least partially formed by the compression tube part and heats the tobacco rod part from the outer circumferential side. The tobacco filler is rolled in rolling paper such that the cut tobacco is in a randomly oriented state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE, Tateki SUMII
  • Publication number: 20230380500
    Abstract: This heat-not-burn tobacco product is provided with an electric heating device and a tobacco stick. The tobacco stick is provided with: a tobacco rod part having a tobacco filler containing cut tobacco; a mouthpiece part coaxially connected to the tobacco rod part; and a ventilation hole provided in the mouthpiece part. The electric heating device has a hollow piping heater having a heating chamber formed therein. The hollow piping heater has: a compression tube part that compresses the tobacco rod part from the outer circumferential side when the tobacco stick is inserted; and a heating wall part that is at least partially formed by the compression tube part and heats the tobacco rod part from the outer circumferential side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE, Tateki SUMII
  • Patent number: 11824379
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply that is able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a control unit that is configured to control at least one of charging and discharging of the power supply such that the power supply does not become one or both of a fully charged state and a discharging termination state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Takeshi Akao
  • Patent number: 11805813
    Abstract: A heater assembly comprises a container including a cylindrical portion that forms a chamber in which a flavor generating article is contained, and a heater arranged in a peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion. The container includes a first channel extending along a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical portion and located adjacently to the chamber in a direction intersecting with the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical portion, and a second channel extending through the chamber along the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical portion. The first channel is in communication with the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Manabu Takeuchi, Yasunobu Inoue, Kimitaka Uchii, Tateki Sumii
  • Patent number: 11800899
    Abstract: An aerosol generating apparatus comprises: a power source; a load configured to have an electric resistance value that varies according to a temperature and atomize an aerosol source or heat a flavor source when supplied with power from the power source; a feed circuit that is electrically connected to the power source and the load and includes a voltage conversion unit capable of converting an output voltage of the power source and outputting the converted output voltage to the load; and a control unit configured to acquire a measurement value corresponding to a current value of a current flowing through the load and control power supply to the load, wherein, in accordance with the measurement value, the control unit controls the feed circuit such that the measurement value becomes smaller than the target value or values included in the target range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Takeshi Akao, Kazuma Mizuguchi
  • Patent number: 11771140
    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 value related to an operation amount of the load and 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 the value related to the operation amount of the load operated in a period in which the acquired voltage value of the power supply is in a predetermined voltage range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Akao, Takuma Nakano, Hajime Fujita, Manabu Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230301357
    Abstract: To obtain a flavor inhaler including an accommodating portion exhibiting high workability. A flavor inhaler includes an accommodating portion that accommodates at least a part of a flavor generating article, and the accommodating portion includes a tubular portion that surrounds a circumference of the flavor generating article and an abutting portion that is formed of a member different from the tubular portion and abuts the flavor generating article accommodated in the accommodating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Tateki SUMII, Yasunobu INOUE, Manabu YAMADA, Keisuke MORITA
  • Publication number: 20230301352
    Abstract: The present invention prevents a member constituting a flavor inhaler from being broken. The flavor inhaler includes a housing, a containing unit contained in the housing and configured to contain a consumable, a tubular unit surrounding the containing unit, and a holding unit holding the tubular unit movably in an axial direction of the tubular unit or a first direction perpendicular to the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Tateki SUMII, Yasunobu INOUE, Manabu YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11744291
    Abstract: An inhalation component generating device includes: a power supply; a load group including a load configured to evaporate or atomize an inhalation component source by power from the power supply; and a control circuit configured to be able to acquire a voltage value of the power supply. The control circuit performs: a process (a1) of acquiring a closed circuit voltage value of the power supply in a closed circuit state in which the power supply and the load group are electrically connected; and a process (a2) of comparing the acquired closed circuit voltage value and a first reference voltage value, and determining that the power supply is in a small residual amount state in a case where the closed circuit voltage value is smaller than or is equal to or smaller than the reference voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Akao, Manabu Yamada, Hajime Fujita
  • Patent number: 11729865
    Abstract: Provided is a battery unit including: a power supply; a detector configured to detect an output voltage of the power supply; a connecting configured to be connectable with a load for atomizing an aerosol source or heating a flavor source; and a controller capable of executing a power supply mode in which electric power is supplied to the load from the power supply. The controller executes a specific control different from the supply of electric power to the load based on am amount of change in the output voltage per a predetermined time period in the power supply mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Takeuchi, Takaya Takahashi, Manabu Yamada, Hajime Fujita