Japan Tobacco Inc.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Jt International S.a.

Japan Tabacco Inc.

Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.

Other

Hitachi, Ltd.

Nec Electronics Corporation

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation

Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Riken Corporation

National Cancer Center

Sumitomo Cement Co., Ltd.

Manabu Yamada

Manabu Takeuchi

Takuma Nakano

Takeshi Akao

Hirofumi Matsumoto

Hajime Fujita

Akihiko Suzuki

Masafumi Tarora

Kazuma Mizuguchi

Takeshi Akiyama

Kazuhiko Katayama

Kimitaka Uchii

Masayuki Tsuji

Takeshi Shinkawa

Takaya Takahashi

Atsuro Yamada

Hiroshi Sasaki

Yasunobu Inoue

Yoshinori Fujisawa

Kentaro Matsuda

Tateki Sumii

Takashi Hasegawa

Tomoichi Watanabe

Yutaka Kaihatsu

Keisuke Morita

Hiroshi Tezuka

Norio Kawata

Morio Yajima

Yasuhiro Shinozaki

Norikazu Miyazaki

Takashi Oda

Kenji Shiraishi

Hitoshi Ohmori

Susumu Shimizu

Tokutaka Hara

Michihiro Inagaki

Takafumi Izumiya

Tomohiro Kobayashi

Nobuhide Itoh

Junichi Nagai

Keiko Fujii

Shinji Ishii

Shinya Osuga

Ryoji Fujita

Syuji Wada

Takahiro Oba

Yuji Yamanaka

Junichiro Ichikawa

Takayuki Miyazaki

Makoto Arai

Masaki Nishikawa

Toshihiro Sakamoto

Chen Kong Teh

Shoji Ootaka

Hisashi Isogami

Kiyoshi Imai

Masami Sawada

Hirotoshi Nagata

Shusaku Takasu

Takashi Shinriki

Shigeyasu Iwata

Layth Sliman Bouchuiguir

Tadashi Arai

Eduardo Jose Garcia Garcia

Akihiro Sugiyama

Kei Hayashida

Taro Kikuchi

Glenn Harrison

Takayuki Aoyama

Tetsuya Yoshimura

Narimasa Kaneda

Yoshiaki Ishikawa

Wataru Sumida

Keito Sawada

Kei Oishi

Rui Cao

Yoshiaki Yoshihara

Peter Loveday

Hirokazu Watanabe

Junichiro Minowa

Teiji Nishio

Kazuhisa Horiuchi

Takeshi Murasaki

Michiaki Maruoka

Kazumi Yamaguchi

Shinichi Shimotsu

Pifa Shen

Kota Takeda

Takeshi Bandai

Akihiro Shimomura

Kineo Kojima

Shen Pifa

Fujio Fukamizu

Keizo Hagimoto

Motoo Nakano

Ryutaro Tsuruizumi

Yuusuke Egashira

Takuo Shiga

Yuki Masuda

A capsule for an electronic cigarette has a first end configured to engage with an electronic cigarette device, a second end having a vapor outlet, a liquid store configured to contain a liquid to be vaporized; a vaporizer housing arranged to house at least a part of a heating element and a part of a fluid transfer element arranged to deliver liquid from the liquid store to the heating element, the heating element being configured to vaporize the received liquid and generate a vapor; a seal arranged to hold the vaporizer housing; a holder arranged to attach to the seal; a main gas flow channel extending between the vaporizer housing and the vapor outlet; a pair of electrodes arranged to provide an electrical connection between the first end of the capsule and an electronic cigarette device; where the holder comprises an airflow passageway.

Airflow chimney

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

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.

Aspirator cartridge

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.

Heater assembly and container

An is an aerosol generating device which is capable of generating an aerosol at an appropriate timing includes: a power source which supplies power in order to atomize an aerosol source and/or heat a flavor source; a sensor which outputs a measurement value for controlling the power supplied; and a controller which controls the power supplied on the basis of the measurement value. The controller controls a power supply amount from the power source to be a first value when the measured value is equal to or larger than a first threshold and smaller than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and the power supply amount to be larger than the first value when the measured value is equal to or larger than the second threshold.

Aerosol generating device, method of controlling aerosol generating device, and program

A power supply unit of an aerosol generation device that supplies electric power to a load that generates aerosol including a sensor that is in an operating state among a normal state and a plurality of abnormal states, and detects an aerosol generation request while the power supply unit is in an active state, a control unit that detects a state of the sensor, and generates an error signal capable of distinguishing between a first and second abnormal states when the sensor is in at least one of the first and second abnormal states included in the plurality of abnormal states, and a notification unit that makes a notification in a different mode for each type of the error signal, wherein the control unit causes the power supply unit to undergo a transition from the active state to a sleep state after generating the error signal, and the plurality of abnormal states include a state in which supply of electric power to the load is unnecessary for detection by the control unit.

Aerosol generation device provided with control unit for detection of abnormal state of sensor

A suction device includes a heating unit that heats a base material and generates an aerosol; a communication unit that receives, through a communication link, information indicating a profile stipulating an operation of the heating unit; and a control unit that controls the operation of the heating unit in accordance with the information indicating the profile. The information indicating the profile includes a combination of information indicating time and information indicating a parameter pertaining to the operation of the heating unit at said time.

Suction device, information transmission method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An inhalation device cartridge includes a liquid storage portion configured to store liquid, an atomizing portion configured to atomize the liquid, and a flexible liquid transporting member configured to transport the liquid stored in the liquid storage portion toward the atomizing portion. The atomizing portion is a heating element having an elongated shape which includes electrical contact points at both ends and is pressed into a main surface of the liquid transporting member. The pressing depth at a center portion of the heating element is greater than the pressing depth at each end portion of the heating element.

Inhalation device cartridge and inhalation device equipped with same

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.

Main body unit of aerosol generation device, aerosol generation device, and non-combustion suction device

A battery unit for a flavor inhaler includes a chargeable and dischargeable power supply, a connector capable of electrically connecting to an external charger, and a controller configured to perform control regarding at least the power supply, wherein the controller detects an abnormality based on a charging time period required for a value related to a remaining amount of the power supply to reach a second predetermined value from a first predetermined value during a charging process of the power supply.

Battery unit, flavor inhaler, method for controlling battery unit, and program

A smoking 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. Provided that, in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the chamber, Lis a shortest distance between an inner surface of the sleeve and the outer surface of the pressing unit and Lis a shortest distance between the inner surface of the sleeve and the outer surface of the non-pressing unit of the chamber, and Lis greater than L

Smoking device

An external unit for an inhalation component generation device includes a connection part that is electrically connectable to a power supply of the inhalation component generation device, a sensor that is capable of outputting an output value related to an electrical resistance value of a resistor provided in the power supply, and a first control part that is configured to determine, based on the output value, whether to change a predetermined control with respect to the power supply connected to the connection part or whether to perform the predetermined control.

External unit for inhalation component generation device, inhalation component generation system, method for controlling external unit for inhalation component generation device, and non-transitory computer readable medium

There is provided an aerosol generation apparatus capable of determining whether an aerosol source is insufficient in quantity while suppressing variation in a generation quantity of aerosol in a period during which a user inhales aerosol. An aerosol generation apparatus comprises a power supply, a storage section that stores an aerosol source or an aerosol base material that retains the aerosol source, a loadthat atomizes the aerosol source using heat generated by electric power from the power supplyand in which an electric resistance value changes depending on a temperature, a first sensorB,D that outputs a value related to the electric resistance value of the load, a second sensor that generates an output upon receipt of a user's request with regard to an aerosol generation, a first circuitthat is connected in series between the power supplyand the load, and includes a first switch Q, a second circuitthat is connected in parallel to the first circuit, includes a second switch Q, and has an electric resistance value higher than an electric resistance value of the first circuit, and a control sectionthat controls the first switch Qand the second switch Q, in which the control sectionis configured to estimate a residual quantity of the aerosol source based on the value output by the first sensorB,D when the second switch Qis in an on state, and to control so that a period during which the output is generated by the second sensor includes a time point at which the second switch Qbecome an on state when the first switch Qis in an on state or a time point at which the second switch Qturns an on state and the first switch Qturns an off state.

Aerosol generation apparatus, and method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program for operating same

Provided is an aerosol generation device that has few necessary structural elements and highly accurately detects shortage of an aerosol source. An aerosol generation devicethat comprises: a power sourcea storage partA that stores an aerosol source or an aerosol substrateB that holds an aerosol source; a loadthat has a temperature-variable electrical resistance value and, by generating heat due to supply of power from the power sourceatomizes aerosol source supplied from the storage partA or aerosol source held by the aerosol substrateB; a circuitthat electrically connects the power sourceand the loadand a control partthat, on the basis of a first voltage value that is the value of the voltage applied to the entire circuit and a second voltage value that is the value of the voltage applied to a part of the circuit at which the applied voltage changes as a result of changes in the temperature of the loaddetermines whether there is a shortage of aerosol source that can be supplied from the storage partA or aerosol source held by the aerosol substrateB.

Aerosol generation device, and method and program for operating same

A cartridge according to an embodiment of the present invention used in a non-combustion suction device having a suction port, has a tank; a first liquid retainer: and a second liquid retainer. The tank is capable of storing liquid. The first liquid retainer is capable of retaining the liquid in the tank and configured to supply the liquid to the heater. The second liquid retainer is in contact with the first liquid retainer and capable of retaining the liquid through the first liquid retainer. The second liquid retainer and the heater are separated from each other.

Cartridge, atomization unit, and non-combustion suction device

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Tokyo, Japan

Manabu Yamada