Patents by Inventor Norio Kawata

Norio Kawata 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).

  • Patent number: 9532596
    Abstract: A package for an oral tobacco product is a package that houses a pouch P including tobacco microparticles made of a tobacco raw material and a packaging material for packaging the tobacco microparticles and configured to cause, when being put in an oral cavity of a user, the user to absorb a tobacco component of the tobacco microparticles, the package including, in the inside thereof, a liquid storing section 24 in which liquid to be supplied to the pouch is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Takeuchi, Norio Kawata
  • Patent number: 9370204
    Abstract: An oral tobacco raw material is easily handled during the manufacturing of oral tobacco, does not stain a packaging material when packaged as a pouch, and does not cause a feeling of a lump to a user and rapidly emits flavor when the user uses the pouch by placing it in the oral cavity. A method for manufacturing such an oral tobacco raw material, and a method for stably obtaining oral tobacco at low cost using the oral tobacco raw material are disclosed. A raw material chip for oral tobacco, includes a tobacco raw material composition including tobacco particles, water, and an additive, and a water-soluble edible film, the tobacco raw material composition and the water-soluble edible film being laminated, wherein outer surfaces of the raw material chip for oral tobacco are composed of a surface composed of the tobacco raw material composition, and a surface composed of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Norio Kawata, Manabu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20140027325
    Abstract: A package for an oral tobacco product is a package that houses a pouch P including tobacco microparticles made of a tobacco raw material and a packaging material for packaging the tobacco microparticles and configured to cause, when being put in an oral cavity of a user, the user to absorb a tobacco component of the tobacco microparticles, the package including, in the inside thereof, a liquid storing section 24 in which liquid to be supplied to the pouch is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu TAKEUCHI, Norio KAWATA
  • Publication number: 20140020692
    Abstract: An oral tobacco raw material is easily handled during the manufacturing of oral tobacco, does not stain a packaging material when packaged as a pouch, and does not cause a feeling of a lump to a user and rapidly emits flavor when the user uses the pouch by placing it in the oral cavity. A method for manufacturing such an oral tobacco raw material, and a method for stably obtaining oral tobacco at low cost using the oral tobacco raw material are disclosed. A raw material chip for oral tobacco, includes a tobacco raw material composition including tobacco particles, water, and an additive, and a water-soluble edible film, the tobacco raw material composition and the water-soluble edible film being laminated, wherein outer surfaces of the raw material chip for oral tobacco are composed of a surface composed of the tobacco raw material composition, and a surface composed of the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Norio KAWATA, Manabu TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140014123
    Abstract: A reconstituted tobacco material is manufactured by extracting a natural tobacco material with an extracting solvent to obtain an extraction residue and a tobacco extracted liquid containing desired components and undesired components including tobacco-specific nitrosamines, subjecting the tobacco extracted liquid to a fractionating treatment by means of a reverse osmosis membrane to obtain a membrane impermeable fraction containing the desired components and depleted in the undesired components and a membrane permeable fraction depleted in the desired components and enriched in the undesired components, controlling the tobacco extracted liquid during the fractionating treatment to have a temperature suitable for the fractionating treatment, removing precipitates, which are precipitated in the tobacco extracted liquid during the fractionating treatment, from the tobacco extracted liquid, preparing a reconstituted tobacco web containing the extraction residue, and adding the membrane impermeable fraction to th
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi FUTAMURA, Norio KAWATA, Yoshiyuki YAMADA
  • Patent number: 8596282
    Abstract: An oral tobacco product (1) has a pouch (2) made of a nonwoven fabric, a tobacco mixture containing tobacco particles made from tobacco materials as a major ingredient, enclosed in the pouch (2), and a water-repellent area (30) formed on an inner surface of the pouch (2) to account for 50% of the entire inner surface of the pouch, the water-repellent area preventing permeation of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Tabacco Inc.
    Inventors: Norio Kawata, Manabu Takeuchi, Manabu Yamada
  • Patent number: 8387626
    Abstract: An oral tobacco product (1) has a pouch (2) made from a nonwoven fabric sheet and containing tobacco particles made from tobacco materials, for being designed to be put in a user's mouth to allow the user to absorb active constituents of tobacco from the tobacco particles via saliva, and a piece of string (6) with a flavoring added, disposed inside the pouch (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Norio Kawata, Manabu Takeuchi, Manabu Yamada
  • Patent number: 8387625
    Abstract: An oral tobacco product which includes a tobacco pouch obtained by wrapping tobacco particles made from a tobacco material in a wrapper, the tobacco pouch allowing a user to take in tobacco components of the tobacco particles via saliva, when put in the user's mouth, and an outer wrapper individually wrapping the tobacco pouch therein. The outer wrapper has liquid impermeability and is provided with a lug for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Norio Kawata, Manabu Takeuchi, Manabu Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120291794
    Abstract: An oral tobacco product (1) has a pouch (2) made of a nonwoven fabric, a tobacco mixture containing tobacco particles made from tobacco materials as a major ingredient, enclosed in the pouch (2), and a water-repellent area (30) formed on an inner surface of the pouch (2) to account for 50% of the entire inner surface of the pouch, the water-repellent area preventing permeation of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventors: Norio KAWATA, Manabu Takeuchi, Manabu Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120085360
    Abstract: An oral tobacco product (1) has a mixture containing, as its main constituent, tobacco particles made from a tobacco material, a pouch (2) filled with the mixture, and product information (4) relating to the mixture and provided on an outer surface of the pouch (2). The tobacco product (1) is contained in a case (14) that can be opened and closed as needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Norio KAWATA, Manabu TAKEUCHI, Manabu YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20120073589
    Abstract: An oral tobacco product (1) has a pouch (2) made from a nonwoven fabric sheet and containing tobacco particles made from tobacco materials, for being designed to be put in a user's mouth to allow the user to absorb active constituents of tobacco from the tobacco particles via saliva, and a piece of string (6) with a flavoring added, disposed inside the pouch (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Norio KAWATA, Manabu Takeuchi, Manabu Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120073588
    Abstract: An oral tobacco product has a tobacco pouch (2) obtained by wrapping tobacco particles made from a tobacco material in a wrapper, the tobacco pouch (2) allowing a user to take in tobacco components of the tobacco particles via saliva when put in the user's mouth, and an outer wrapper (4) individually wrapping the tobacco pouch (2) therein. The outer wrapper (4) has liquid impermeability and is provided with a lug (6) for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Norio KAWATA, Manabu TAKEUCHI, Manabu YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20120073590
    Abstract: An oral tobacco article (1) has a tobacco pouch (2) including a mixture packaged in a nonwoven fabric sheet, the mixture containing tobacco particles made from a tobacco material, as a main ingredient, the tobacco pouch being designed to be put in a user's mouth to allow the user to absorb active constituents of tobacco from the tobacco particles via saliva, an openable and closable case (4) for holding a plurality of the tobacco pouches (2), and silver zeolite (30) applied as an inorganic antibacterial agent to the tobacco pouch (2) and the case (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Norio KAWATA, Manabu TAKEUCHI, Manabu YAMADA
  • Patent number: 5431779
    Abstract: An evaporator control method for a salt manufacturing plant includes the steps of: measuring the speed of sound of in a raw solution of salt which additionally includes magnesium chloride and calcium chloride accommodated in an evaporator; calculating the combined concentration of magnesium chloride and calcium chloride according to the speed of sound based on a calibration curve; and controlling a condition of the raw solution in the evaporator according to the combined concentration of magnesium chloride and calcium chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco, Inc.
    Inventor: Norio Kawata
  • Patent number: 5309493
    Abstract: A fuel rod for nuclear reactors which contains UO.sub.2 or a mixed-oxide (MOX) of UO.sub.2 and PuO.sub.2 as a nuclear fuel and a combustible reactivity control material e.g., Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3. A plurality of hollow UO.sub.2 or MOX pellets each having a hole along its central axis are spitted with a long bar of Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 to form a pellet stack, which is inserted and sealed in a cladding tube to form the fuel rod of the present invention. Since the Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 bar can be manufactured in a non-nuclear fuel manufacturing facility, it is not required to provide two separate lines, i.e., a line for handling Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 and a line for handling UO.sub.2 or MOX fuel, in one manufacturing facility. The optimum design for the performance of the nuclear fuel is possible by changing the diameter and/or Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 concentration of the Gd.sub.2 O.sub.3 bar depending on the desired performance of the nuclear fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Doryokuro Kakunenryo Kaihatsu Jigyodan
    Inventors: Katsuichiro Kamimura, Norio Kawata, Vitanza Carlo
  • Patent number: 5161028
    Abstract: In this invention, a first slider is slidably provided in a holding part provided in a housing part within a car, a second slider is further slidably provided along this first slider and a liquid crystal display is rotatably provided through a hinge at the tip of this second slider. Further, an engaging means is provided on said housing part and second slider so that, when the liquid crystal display is housed, the above mentioned display, second slider and first slider may be disengageably housed within the above mentioned holding part by the above mentioned engaging means and the liquid crystal display may be always kept energized in the sliding direction by the energizing means and, when the liquid crystal display is to be used, it may be easy to move in the sliding direction by the energizing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norio Kawata, Masaaki Takuma