Patents by Inventor Yuta YANAI

Yuta YANAI 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: 20240315318
    Abstract: Provided is a filling element used for a flavor inhalation article, the filling element including: a sheet fill section obtained by randomly gathering and reducing the diameter of one sheet in a width direction that intersects the longitudinal direction of the sheet; and, a roll paper wrapped around the sheet fill section. The sheet is a dry nonwoven fabric obtained by bonding plant-derived fibers together with a binder and drying the fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Yosuke SHIOYA, Keisuke TAKAGI, Katsuo KATO, Yuta YANAI
  • Patent number: 12098049
    Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a tray, a binder, a mover, and a switcher. The switcher includes a first passage, a second passage, and a movable wall. The movable wall guides a guided portion of the binder to the second passage when the guided portion moving along the first passage from an end side to a center side contacts the movable wall; causes the guided portion to pass when the guided portion moving along the second passage from the end side to the center side contacts the movable wall; guides the guided portion to the first passage when the guided portion moving along the second passage from the center side to the end side contacts the movable wall; and causes the guided portion to pass when the guided portion moving along the first passage from the center side to the end side contacts the movable wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Ota, Yohei Yamazaki, Yuji Miyachi, Yusuke Hirono, Yuta Yanai, Yuji Susaki, Masanobu Kimata
  • Publication number: 20240245089
    Abstract: Provided is a tobacco sheet for a non-combustion-heating-type flavor inhaler, the tobacco sheet including a fibrous material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro KOIDE, Kimitaka UCHII, Takahiro MATSUDA, Ayaka HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiro NODA, Yuta YANAI, Hirotsugu WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240196952
    Abstract: This tobacco sheet for a non-combustion heating-type flavor inhaler contains a tobacco powder having a cumulative 90% particle diameter (D90) of at least 200 ?m in a volume-based particle size distribution as measured by a dry laser diffraction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro KOIDE, Kimitaka UCHII, Takahiro MATSUDA, Ayaka HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiro NODA, Yuta YANAI, Hirotsugu WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240196953
    Abstract: Provided is a tobacco sheet for a non-combustion heating-type fragrance inhaler including a tobacco material, wherein a cross-section of the tobacco sheet in the thickness direction has a wavy shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro KOIDE, Kimitaka UCHII, Kazuhiro NODA, Yuta YANAI, Hirotsugu WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240034592
    Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a receptacle, an aligner, a crimp binder, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys a medium. The receptacle holds the medium. The aligner contacts a downstream end of the medium and aligns a position of the medium in a conveyance direction of the medium. The crimp binder faces the downstream end of the medium to press and deform a binding position on media of which the position is aligned, to bind the media. The aligner and the crimp binder are movable in a main scanning direction orthogonal to each of the conveyance direction and a thickness direction of the medium. When determining that the aligner overlaps the binding position when the receptacle is viewed in the thickness direction, the circuitry moves the aligner in the main scanning direction away from the binding position and causes the crimp binder to crimp and bind the media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuta Yanai, Yuji Susaki
  • Publication number: 20230331507
    Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a tray, a binder, a mover, and a switcher. The switcher includes a first passage, a second passage, and a movable wall. The movable wall guides a guided portion of the binder to the second passage when the guided portion moving along the first passage from an end side to a center side contacts the movable wall; causes the guided portion to pass when the guided portion moving along the second passage from the end side to the center side contacts the movable wall; guides the guided portion to the first passage when the guided portion moving along the second passage from the center side to the end side contacts the movable wall; and causes the guided portion to pass when the guided portion moving along the first passage from the center side to the end side contacts the movable wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Ota, Yohei Yamazaki, Yuji Miyachi, Yusuke Hirono, Yuta Yanai, Yuji Susaki, Masanobu Kimata
  • Patent number: 11745973
    Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a tray, a binder, and a binder mover. The conveyor conveys recording media on each of which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus. The tray holds the recording media conveyed by the conveyor. The binder binds the recording media on the tray with a plurality of staples in a cartridge. The binder mover includes a motor, a ratchet gear that receives a driving force of the motor to rotate in a forward direction or a reverse direction, a driving force transmitter that moves the binder toward one side in the main scanning direction as the ratchet gear rotates in the forward direction and moves the binder toward an opposite side in the main scanning direction as the ratchet gear rotates in the reverse direction, and a rotation limiter that moves between a rotation allowing position and a rotation limiting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Yanai
  • Publication number: 20220380165
    Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a tray, a binder, and a binder mover. The conveyor conveys recording media on each of which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus. The tray holds the recording media conveyed by the conveyor. The binder binds the recording media on the tray with a plurality of staples in a cartridge. The binder mover includes a motor, a ratchet gear that receives a driving force of the motor to rotate in a forward direction or a reverse direction, a driving force transmitter that moves the binder toward one side in the main scanning direction as the ratchet gear rotates in the forward direction and moves the binder toward an opposite side in the main scanning direction as the ratchet gear rotates in the reverse direction, and a rotation limiter that moves between a rotation allowing position and a rotation limiting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventor: Yuta YANAI