Patents by Inventor Yasunobu Inoue

Yasunobu Inoue 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 11781044
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite resin particle dispersion includes: performing polymerization A by polymerizing a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound to form a styrene-based resin; performing polymerization B by polymerizing a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound in the presence of the styrene-based resin to form intermediate resin particles containing the styrene-based resin and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin; and performing polymerization C by polymerizing a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound in the presence of the intermediate resin particles to form composite resin particles. The mass ratio of the styrene-based resin to the (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin in the composite resin particles is from 80:20 to 20:80. A difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature in the composite resin particles is 30° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Sumiaki Yamasaki, Takahiro Ishizuka, Kiyohiro Yamanaka, Yasunobu Kashima, Satoshi Inoue
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11696601
    Abstract: A heater assembly includes 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: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamada, Manabu Takeuchi, Yasunobu Inoue, Kimitaka Uchii, Tateki Sumii
  • Publication number: 20230189885
    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: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Manabu TAKEUCHI, Yasunobu INOUE, Kimitaka UCHII, Tateki SUMII
  • Publication number: 20230148671
    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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE, Tateki SUMII
  • Publication number: 20230121542
    Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori ITO, Yasunobu Inoue
  • Patent number: 11620926
    Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori Ito, Yasunobu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20230102855
    Abstract: An inhalation device includes a heating part for heating a base material to generate aerosol and a control part for controlling operation of the heating part on the basis of a heating profile in which a target temperature is specified, the target temperature being a target value for the temperature of the heating part, wherein: the heating profile includes time sections continuous along a time axis; in each of the plurality of time sections, the target temperature at the end of each time section is set; the heating profile includes a midway temperature drop section on the way; the target temperature set in the midway temperature drop section is lower than the target temperature set in the time section immediately preceding the midway temperature drop section; and the control part performs control such that the heating part is not supplied with power in the midway temperature drop section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Ryoji FUJITA, Tateki SUMII, Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE
  • Patent number: 11602160
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a filler for a smoking article, a smoking article comprising the filler for a smoking article, and a method for manufacturing the filler for a smoking article. In one embodiment, the filler according to the present invention for a smoking article, said filler comprising a gel which contains a gelling agent and one or more gelation promoters, is characterized by having a tap density of 0.05 g/cm3 or less and a degree of suitability to compression filling of more than 60. In one embodiment, the filler according to the present invention for a smoking article is characterized by comprising a gel which contains pectin having an esterification degree of 12% or less and one or more gelation promoters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Riho Nagai, Yasunobu Inoue, Hideki Nagae, Masanari Makino
  • Publication number: 20220366824
    Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori ITO, Yasunobu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220346453
    Abstract: A device includes a chamber that receives a consumable, a heating unit that heats the consumable received into the chamber, and a tubular sleeve that surrounds 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 pressing unit, which presses a part of the consumable, and a non-pressing unit. The holding unit is provided with an air gap between the inner surface of the non-pressing unit and the consumable when the consumable is positioned at a desired position in the chamber, the air gap connecting the opening in the chamber and the end surface of the consumable positioned at the desired position in the chamber, or the opening in the chamber and the end surface of the consumable positioned inside the chamber and away from the opening in the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu YAMADA, Yasunobu INOUE, Tateki SUMII
  • Patent number: 11436957
    Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori Ito, Yasunobu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20210343207
    Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori Ito, Yasunobu Inoue
  • Patent number: 11087652
    Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Takateru Yamamoto, Sukenori Ito, Yasunobu Inoue