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).

  • Battery unit, flavor inhaler, method of controlling battery unit, and program
    Patent number: 11202342
    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: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Takeuchi, Takaya Takahashi, Manabu Yamada, Hajime Fujita
  • ASPIRATOR CARTRIDGE
    Publication number: 20210337866
    Abstract: An aspirator cartridge has a novel structure, and an aspirator. This aspirator cartridge has a proximal end, which is located on the side of an aspirator that is closer to the mouth of a user when the aspirator is used by the user, and a distal end located on the opposite side from the proximal end. The cartridge includes a tank main body and a cover member that demarcate a tank for accumulating a liquid and an aerosol flow path extending in a direction that connects the proximal end and the distal end, the tank main body and the cover member being fitted together; and a flexible cap member arranged between the tank main body and the cover member, the cap member having a hole that communicates with the aerosol flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yutaka KAIHATSU, Kentaro MATSUDA
  • ASPIRATOR CARTRIDGE
    Publication number: 20210337873
    Abstract: An aspirator cartridge and an aspirator have new structures. An aspirator cartridge includes a heater unit configured to atomize a liquid in order to generate an aerosol. The heater unit includes: a liquid holding member that has a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface; a heater that comes in contact with the first surface of the liquid holding member; and a support member that supports the second surface of the liquid holding member and is softer than the liquid holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yutaka KAIHATSU, Kentaro MATSUDA
  • Inhalation component generation device, method for controlling inhalation component generation device, and program
    Patent number: 11160311
    Abstract: This inhalation component generation device comprises: a load which vaporizes or atomizes an inhalation component source using power from a power supply; and a control unit. The control unit comprises: a voltage sensor which uses a predefined correlation to convert the analog voltage value of a power supply to a digital voltage value and outputs the digital voltage value; and a power control unit which controls the supply of power from the power supply to the load on the basis of the digital voltage value. The control unit is configured to be capable of calibrating the correlation on the basis of changes in the digital voltage value or the analog voltage value obtained during charging of the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi Akao, Hajime Fujita, Manabu Yamada
  • Smokeless flavor inhalator
    Patent number: 11160304
    Abstract: A smokeless flavor inhalator includes a tobacco material as a flavor generator, and a heater for heating the tobacco material to allow flavor components to be released from the tobacco material while preventing smoke from being generated from the tobacco material. The heater has a carbon heat source and a cooling element. The carbon heat source and the cooling element cooperatively keep the heating temperature of the tobacco material at a temperature of 50 to 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Shinozaki, Kazuhiko Katayama, Takeshi Akiyama, Yoshiaki Ishikawa, Manabu Yamada
  • Flavor inhaler and cup
    Patent number: 11160302
    Abstract: A flavor inhaler (100) comprises a cup (50) having a cup shape. The cup is inserted into the holder (30) in a direction in which an opening of the cup is directed toward the ignition end side and a bottom plate (52) of the cup is arranged at the non-ignition end side. The cup has a claw portion (54) that protrudes into an inside of the cup from an inner wall surface of a side wall (51) of the cup. The claw portion has at least an engagement portion (54A) that engages an end surface of the combustion type heat source (70) in a non-ignition end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Oda, Manabu Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Shinozaki, Takashi Hasegawa, Manabu Yamada
  • Flavor generating segment, and flavor generating article and flavor inhalation system equipped therewith
    Patent number: 11154093
    Abstract: Provided are a flavor generating segment comprising a first flavor generating member and a second flavor generating member, wherein: at least either of the first and the second flavor generating members includes a plurality of stacked flavor generating sheets and has, between at least a pair of the neighboring flavor generating sheets, a non-contact part in which the flavor generating sheets do not come into contact with each other; and principal surfaces of the flavor generating sheets face the other flavor generating member, as well as a flavor generating article and a flavor inhalation system equipped therewith. The flavor generating segment gives a good smoking flavor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventor: Manabu Yamada
  • HEAD UP DISPLAY DEVICE AND HELMET
    Publication number: 20210307442
    Abstract: In an HUD device (3) mounted on a helmet (101), a projection unit (39) configured to project display light to a combiner (73) includes a light emitter (57) configured to emit display light, a housing (61) having a projection opening (63) through which display light emitted from the light emitter passes, and a cover member (65) having transparency to light and disposed to cover the projection opening. The projection unit (39) is incorporated in a chin portion (113) of the helmet body such that display light to be projected to the combiner passes through an optical path portion (119) provided in a mouse cover (115) of the helmet body (105). The cover member is disposed at an inner side of an interior member than a surface of the interior member at which an end of the optical path portion at a light emission side is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: NS WEST Inc., SHOEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Masanori HIRAMATSU, Kou SATOU, Motoki TASHIMA, Naoya MATSUOKA, Hirotaka ASAOKA
  • HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE AND HELMET
    Publication number: 20210311317
    Abstract: A HUD device mounted on a helmet includes a projection module configured to project display light for displaying a display image capable of being visually recognized as a virtual image. The projection module includes a light emitter configured to emit display light and a concave mirror configured to reflect display light emitted by the light emitter toward a combiner. The light emitter and the concave mirror are incorporated separately in the left and right sides of a chin portion of a helmet. The light emitter includes a first portion including an LED and a second portion including a display element. The first portion extends from a lower side of the second portion toward the concave mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: NS WEST Inc., SHOEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori HIRAMATSU, Manabu YAMADA, Kou SATOU
  • HELMET AND CHARGING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210307444
    Abstract: In a helmet including a battery and a helmet body whose outer surface is constituted by a shell, a charging connector is disposed inside the shell to face inward of the shell, and the charging connector is configured to be connected to a power supply-side connector connected to a power supply through a power supply-side cable during charging of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: NS WEST Inc., SHOEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kou SATOU, Manabu YAMADA, Masanori HIRAMATSU, Yuusuke MATSUMOTO, Naoya MATSUOKA, Kousuke AOI, Yoshimasa TANAKA, Hirotaka ASAOKA
  • DISPLAY LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE, HEAD-UP DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND HELMET
    Publication number: 20210312842
    Abstract: If a distance from a current position to a guide point is less than a predetermined distance, a normal output process and a stop process of a guide image are repeatedly performed. If a priority display request for a guide image is performed, a priority output process of the guide image is performed prior to the stop process. If an interval between the priority output process and the normal output process performed after the priority output process is short, the priority output process continues until the normal output process starts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: NS WEST Inc., SHOEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki TASHIMA, Naoya MATSUOKA, Yuusuke MATSUMOTO, Manabu YAMADA, Yoshimasa TANAKA, Masanori HIRAMATSU, Hirotaka ASAOKA, Kou SATOU, Kousuke AOI
  • Power supply unit for aerosol suction device and power supply diagnosis method of aerosol suction device
    Patent number: 11122837
    Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol suction device includes: a power supply capable of discharging to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a controller capable of controlling charging and discharging of the power supply. The controller is capable of operating in a charging mode for controlling charging of the power supply, a first mode different from the charging mode, and a second mode different from the charging mode and the first mode, and is capable of executing diagnosis processes of the power supply in each of the first mode and the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Kazuma Mizuguchi, Manabu Yamada, Ryoji Fujita, Hajime Fujita
  • Power supply unit of aerosol generation apparatus
    Patent number: 11116255
    Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generation apparatus includes: a power supply capable of discharging to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol source; a controller configured to control the power supply; and a housing configured to house the power supply and the controller. The controller is configured to detect at least one of leakage of a liquid inside the housing and entering of a liquid into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TABACCO INC.
    Inventors: Kazuma Mizuguchi, Manabu Yamada
  • Power supply unit of aerosol generation apparatus
    Patent number: 11089816
    Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generation apparatus includes: a power supply capable of discharging to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol source; a controller configured to control the power supply; a housing configured to house the power supply and the controller; and a plurality of sensors capable of outputting the same physical quantity inside the housing. The controller is configured to diagnose a state of the power supply unit based on outputs of the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Kazuma Mizuguchi, Manabu Yamada, Ryoji Fujita, Hajime Fujita
  • POWER SUPPLY UNIT FOR AEROSOL INHALER, AEROSOL INHALER, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD OF AEROSOL INHALER, AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM OF AEROSOL INHALER
    Publication number: 20210249877
    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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Takeshi AKAO
  • POWER SUPPLY UNIT FOR AEROSOL INHALER, AEROSOL INHALER, POWER SUPPLY CONTROL METHOD OF AEROSOL INHALER, AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROL PROGRAM OF AEROSOL INHALER
    Publication number: 20210249878
    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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Takeshi AKAO
  • Inhalation component generation device, processor for external power supply, method for controlling inhalation component generation device, and program
    Patent number: 11083226
    Abstract: The inhalation component generation device comprises: a load that vaporizes or atomizes an inhalation component source by electric power from an electric power source; a controller that obtains a value representing a remaining amount of the electric power source, and obtains an operation requesting signal to the load and generates an instruction for operating the load; and a user interface. The controller is configured to cause the user interface to perform a second notification when the value representing the remaining amount of the electric power source is less than a first threshold value and equal to or greater than a second threshold value that is less than the first threshold value, and cause the user interface to perform a third notification when the value representing the remaining amount of the electric power source is less than the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Manabu Takeuchi, Takeshi Akao, Takuma Nakano, Hajime Fujita
  • MAIN BODY UNIT OF AEROSOL GENERATION DEVICE, AEROSOL GENERATION DEVICE, AND NON-COMBUSTION SUCTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210235754
    Abstract: A main body unit of an aerosol generation device including a power source; an accommodation portion having a cylindrical shape and configured to store an aerosol source; a suction port part formed with a suction port configured to suck an aerosol made from the aerosol source atomized; and a connector connecting the power source, the accommodation portion, and the suction port part in an axial direction extending a central axis of the maim body unit is provided. The connector includes a first rotation connector configured to release a connection between the power source and the accommodation portion by applying a first torque around the central axis, and a second rotation connector configured to release a connection between the accommodation portion and the suction port part by applying a second torque smaller than the first torque around the central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Kentaro MATSUDA
  • POWER SUPPLY UNIT OF AEROSOL GENERATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF POWER SUPPLY UNIT OF AEROSOL GENERATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR POWER SUPPLY UNIT OF AEROSOL GENERATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210235768
    Abstract: In order to detect the occurrence of malfunctions in a sensor, this power supply unit is provided with a sensor unit which detects an aerosol generation request, and a control portion which, on the basis of an output value from the sensor unit which has detected an aerosol generation request, detects whether the sensor unit is in a normal state or an abnormal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi AKAO, Manabu YAMADA, Hiroshi TEZUKA
  • POWER SUPPLY UNIT OF AEROSOL GENERATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF POWER SUPPLY UNIT OF AEROSOL GENERATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR POWER SUPPLY UNIT OF AEROSOL GENERATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210235767
    Abstract: In order to detect the occurrence of malfunction in a sensor, this power supply unit is provided with a microphone condenser which detects an aerosol generation request, a PTC thermistor which outputs a value which changes depending on electric change in the microphone condenser, and a control portion which, on the basis of the value outputted by the PTC thermistor, detects whether the microphone condenser is in a normal state or an abnormal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi AKAO, Manabu YAMADA, Hiroshi TEZUKA