Japan Tobacco Inc.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kyocera Corporation

Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Jt International S.a.

Akihiko Suzuki

Manabu Yamada

Takuma Nakano

Manabu Takeuchi

Masanori Uchidoi

Kuniyoshi Suzaki

Takayuki Nemoto

Hirofumi Matsumoto

Masafumi Tarora

Takashi Hasegawa

Kazuhiko Katayama

Kimitaka Uchii

Yukio Suzuki

Tadakatsu Shimada

Hideo Hirasawa

Susumu Nagano

Waichi Yamamura

Yoshiaki Shimizu

Tetsushi Okamoto

Noriyuki Iwata

Eduardo Jose Garcia Garcia

Takeshi Shinkawa

Glenn Harrison

Fumio Sawa

Hiroyoshi Tsuchiya

Tooru Ootaka

Shigehito Ishii

Mitsuhiko Koyama

Tatsuaki Iriya

Soichiro Kenmochi

Nelson Kevin Fraser

Nakano Takuma

A heater assembly for an aerosol generating device includes a tubular heating chamber and a flexible thin film heater comprising a heating element track supported on a surface of a flexible electrically insulating backing film. The flexible thin film heater is wrapped around an outer surface of the heating chamber with the backing film toward the heating chamber. The invention further includes a temperature sensor comprising a temperature sensing element configured to sense a local temperature, wherein the temperature sensing element is positioned so as to overlap with a portion of heating element track. Because the temperature sensing element overlaps with a portion of the heating element track, the temperature sensor provides a more accurate reading of the temperature of the heating element itself.

Heater assembly

A non-combustion type flavor inhaler comprising: an atomizer atomizing an aerosol source without burning; and a controller controlling a power output to the atomizer, wherein the controller is configured to start supply of a power output to the atomizer before start of a user's puffing action, and is configured to stop supply of a power output to the atomizer during a user's puffing action.

Non-combustion type flavor inhaler and aerosol delivery method

An infrared imaging lens system comprises, in order from an object side, a first lens formed of silicon whose minimum transmittance of infrared rays with a wavelength of 8 &#x3bc;m to 13 &#x3bc;m is at least 40% for a thickness of 1 mm, and a second lens formed of chalcogenide glass. The silicon whose minimum transmittance of infrared rays with a wavelength of 8 &#x3bc;m to 13 &#x3bc;m is at least 40% for a thickness of 1 mm can be obtained at low cost for example by controlling the oxygen concentration in CZ method.

Infrared imaging lens system

Provided is a flavor inhaler comprising: an atomizing unit that generates an aerosol from an aerosol source; a flavor source provided downstream from the atomizing unit; a mouthpiece section provided downstream from the flavor source; a control unit that controls the atomizing unit; an aerosol flow path leading to the mouthpiece section from the atomizing unit; and an information source for holding identification information associated with a correction value for correcting a reference aerosol amount that is the amount of aerosol generated by the atomizing unit and that is an amount designed in advance. The aerosol flow path branches between the atomizing unit and the flavor source into a first branch flow path through which the flavor source passes and a second branch flow path that differs from the first branch flow path. The correction value is a value relating to a flow rate ratio that is the flow rate in the first branch flow path relative to a predetermined flow rate when the mouthpiece section is sucked at a predetermined flow rate. The control unit controls the atomizing unit on the basis of a target aerosol amount calculated on the basis of the reference aerosol amount and the correction value.

Flavor inhaler, cartridge, and flavor unit

A method of manufacturing an atomizing unit comprises: a step A of measuring a resistance value of a resistive heating element which atomizes an aerosol source by resistance heat; and a step B of recording the resistance value measured in the step A, an adjusted power supply output determined in accordance with the resistance value as a power supply output to the resistive heating element or identification information associated with the resistance value or the adjusted power supply output in an information source.

Method of manufacturing atomizing unit, non-combustion type flavor inhaler, atomizing unit and atomizing unit package

This flavor inhaler is provided with a housing having an air flow path that spans continuously from an inlet to an outlet, and an atomizing part for atomizing an aerosol source without accompanying combustion of the aerosol source, wherein at least one portion of the air flow path is an aerosol flow path which is a flow path for an aerosol generated from the atomizing part, and the air blow resistance of the whole air flow path is not greater than 25 mmAq.

Flavor inhaler

This flavor inhaler is provided with: a plurality of generation units for generating a component to be inhaled from a source of the component to be inhaled using power supplied from a battery; and a control unit for controlling the amount of power supplied to the plurality of generation units. The plurality of generation units are disposed on an air path that connects an inlet to an outlet. The control unit calculates Don the basis of Vand Vand controls the amount of power on the basis of D.

A method for manufacturing an atomizing unit, comprises a step A of forming an oxide film on a surface of a heating element forming a part of an atomizing unit that atomizes an aerosol source, by supplying electric power to the heating element, in a state where the heating element is processed into a heater shape.

Method for manufacturing atomizing unit, atomizing unit, and non-combustion type flavor inhaler

This non-combusting flavor inhaler is provided with a control unit which, as an instruction to a battery, outputs to the battery a prescribed instruction instructing the battery that the amount of aerosol vaporized by a vaporizer unit should fall within a desired range. The control unit stops power supply from the battery to the vaporizer unit once a prescribed period has elapsed since the start of supplying power to the vaporizer unit. The prescribed period is shorter than the upper limit value of a standard puff period, which is derived from a statistic of the user's puff period.

Non-burning type flavor inhaler and control method

A flavor inhaler includes: an aerosol flow path for guiding, to the mouthpiece side, an aerosol generated by an atomizing part; and an acid flow path for guiding, to the mouthpiece side, an acid discharged from an acid generating source without allowing the acid to pass through the atomizing part. The aerosol flow path includes at least a first flow path for guiding the aerosol to the mouthpiece side through a flavor inhalation component source.

Non-burning type flavor inhaler, flavor source unit, and atomizing unit

This non-combustion type flavor inhaler is provided with an atomization unit having an aerosol source and a resistive heating element for atomizing the aerosol source with resistive heat, and a control unit which controls the amount of power supplied to the resistive heating element, wherein the amount of power supplied to the resistive heating element during the action of a single puff is represented by E, characteristic parameters of the atomization unit are represented by a and b, the amount of the aerosol source consumed with one puff action is represented by L, and the control unit calculates L with the formula L=aE+b, or, controls E in accordance with the formula E=(L&#x2212;b)/a.

Non-burning type flavor inhaler and atomizing unit calculating the amount of aerosol consumed

A type flavor inhaler () comprises aerosol flow passage () guiding aerosol generated by the atomization unit () to the mouthpiece side. The aerosol flow passage () includes: a first flow passage (A) which guides aerosol to the mouthpiece side through the flavor source (); and a second flow passage (B) which is different from the first flow passage (A). An aerosol reduction rate of the second flow passage (B) is smaller than an aerosol reduction rate of the first flow passage (A).

Non-combustion type flavor inhaler, flavor source unit, and method for manufacturing member used in a non-combustion type flavor inhaler

A charging device for a non-combustion type flavor inhaler includes a housing having an electric contact with a non-combustion type flavor inhaler including a rechargeable battery; a power reception unit configured to receive electric power in a non-contact state from a power feeding unit included in a power feeding member; and a charging unit configured to supply the electric power received in the power reception unit to the rechargeable battery via the contact.

Charging device for non-combustion type flavor inhaler

This atomization unit is provided with a reservoir that holds an aerosol source, an atomization part that atomizes the aerosol source, and a cap body that blocks a supply port for supplying the aerosol source to the reservoir, wherein movement of the cap body away from the reservoir causes the atomization part and/or a power supply member, which electrically connects a power source and the atomization part, to break.

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Tokyo, Japan

Akihiko Suzuki