Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a cavity into which a cigarette is inserted, a light source that emits light to the cigarette inserted in the cavity, a reuse detection sensor that receives light reflected from the cigarette, a heater that heats the cigarette inserted into the cavity, and a controller, and the controller determines whether or not to operate the heater based on a rate of increase or decrease of a sensing value received from the reuse detection sensor.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device measures a current temperature of a heater before power is supplied to the heater that heats an aerosol generating material, and sets a preheating completion parameter, based on the measured current temperature of the heater, and a value of an amount of heat required to be supplied to the aerosol generating material to generate an adequate amount of aerosol. The aerosol generating device controls power supplied to the heater, based on the preheating completion parameter, such that a value of an amount of heat supplied to the aerosol generating material by the heater reaches the value of the amount of heat required to be supplied to the aerosol generating material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a conductive material with high stretchability and a method for preparing the conductive material, and more particularly, to a conductive material with high stretchability, including a carbon nanotube (CNT) network, and a polymer dopant, not an elastomer, providing an increase in free-volume of the carbon nanotube (CNT) network, wherein the conductive material includes the polymer dopant in an amount of 1 wt % to less than 30 wt % with respect to the total weight of the carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and has stretchability.

Abstract: A lead adjustment apparatus includes a cover portion including locking means, a rotating member around which a lead is wound, latches coupled to the rotating member, and rotating with respect to the same axis as the rotating member when force of a preset range is applied to the lead, and opened so as to be locked into some of the locking means, an elastic member allowing the latches to be gathered together, and a spiral spring adding a rotational force to the rotating member such that the lead is wound. The latches are controlled by the elastic member to be locked into some of the locking means when the lead is unwound and not to be locked into the locking means when the lead is wound. Accordingly, the lead may be controlled differently with respect to each of cases where the lead is wound and the lead is unwound.

Abstract: An inhaler includes a housing including a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a side surface configured to connect the first surface to the second surface, wherein a plurality of air inlets is formed in the housing to penetrate the side surface in a vertical direction, a mouthpiece protruding from the first surface, and a guide configured to form a path through which air introduced through the air inlets moves in an interior of the housing, wherein, when an inhaling force is applied to the mouthpiece, the guide is configured to guide a functional material accommodated in the interior of the housing to be transferred to the mouthpiece.

Abstract: A lens assembly is provided. The lens assembly includes a spacer; and a first lens coupled to the spacer, wherein a length of the first lens in a first direction, perpendicular to an optical axis, is greater than a length of the first lens in a second direction, perpendicular to both the optical axis and the first direction, the first lens includes a first side surface which extends in the first direction, the spacer includes a plurality of support portions in contact with the first lens, and a side wall portion that connects the plurality of support portions, and the first side surface of the first lens is disposed to face the side wall portion.

Abstract: As an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is disclosed an aerosol generating device including: a heater configured to generate an aerosol by heating an aerosol generating substrate; a storage unit configured to store information regarding a first time period and a second time period for controlling a temperature of the heater; and a controller configured to control power supplied to the heater, wherein the controller, when the first time period time elapses after the temperature of the heater reaches the first target temperature, changes the temperature of the heater to a second target temperature for the second time period, and the sum of the first time period and the second time period is a time period in a preset change.

Abstract: A disclosed embodiment provides a clothes care device which can improve service life, is not influenced by humidity, and can resolve odor problems. A clothes care device, according to one aspect of the present invention, comprises: an air blower; a flow path through which air, which is made to flow by the air blower, moves; and a deodorizing module for purifying the air which is made to flow by the air blower. The deodorizing module comprises: a ceramic filter provided inside the flow path; and an ultraviolet light emitting unit provided on the outside of the flow path so as to face the ceramic filter.

Abstract: The liquid cartridge includes a storage portion which is configured to store an aerosol-generating substrate in a liquid state and includes an air hole through which air enters, a wick which is configured to absorb the stored aerosol-generating substrate, and a vaporizing portion which is configured to vaporize the aerosol-generating substrate absorbed through the wick to generate an aerosol.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, to manage design information of a tobacco-related article, it is possible to receive target type information of a tobacco-related target article and target design information of the target article from a seller terminal, issue a blockchain-based non-fungible token (NFT) containing ownership information indicating a seller of the seller terminal is an initial owner of the target design information, perform a purchase contract of the NFT between the seller and an administrator of the server, and store ownership change information of the NFT when the purchase contract is performed.

Abstract: According to an example. to manage a control profile. it is possible to receive a control profile from a first electronic device of at least one seller. store the control profile. and transmit a target control profile selected by a target user from among a plurality of stored control profiles to a second electronic device of the target user.

Abstract: A spacer is provided. The spacer includes an opening through which light passes and an internal surface that forms the opening, wherein the internal surface includes a first internal surface having a first curvature portion having a first predetermined curvature and a second internal surface disposed to face the first internal surface in a first direction, perpendicular to an optical axis direction, and having a second curvature portion having a second predetermined curvature, a distance between the first internal surface and the second internal surface is less than a distance between surfaces facing each other in the second direction, intersecting the first direction, and the first curvature portion and the second curvature portion are provided as a pair, corresponding to each other, to form an arc of a circle inscribed on the first internal surface and the second internal surface.

Abstract: Provided are a cartridge including a liquid storage including an aerosol generating material, and an atomizer configured to generate an aerosol from the aerosol generating material, in which the aerosol generating material includes menthol, a flavoring agent, propylene glycol (PG), and vegetable glycerin (VG), and an aerosol generating system including the same.

Abstract: A pair of vision devices are supported by a base frame while spaced apart from each other in a Y-axis direction, wherein each of the pair of vision devices includes a main illuminator which obliquely emits light with respect to a normal plane of a guide roller to illuminate a target object, a sub-illuminator which illuminates the target object by emitting light to remove a shadow generated by the main illuminator, and a camera disposed between the main illuminator and the sub-illuminator. The X-axis moving unit moves X-axis stages with respect to Y-axis stages in an X-axis direction so that the vision devices move toward or away from the guide roller while supported by the X-axis stages. The Y-axis moving unit moves at least any one of the Y-axis stages with respect to the base frame in the Y-axis direction to adjust a distance between the vision devices.

Abstract: A lead adjustment apparatus includes a cover portion including locking means, a rotating member around which a lead is wound, latches coupled to the rotating member, and rotating with respect to the same axis as the rotating member when force of a preset range is applied to the lead, and opened so as to be locked into some of the locking means, an elastic member allowing the latches to be gathered together, and a spiral spring adding a rotational force to the rotating member such that the lead is wound. The latches are controlled by the elastic member to be locked into some of the locking means when the lead is unwound and not to be locked into the locking means when the lead is wound. Accordingly, the lead may be controlled differently with respect to each of cases where the lead is wound and the lead is unwound.

Abstract: As an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is disclosed an aerosol generating device including: a heater configured to generate an aerosol by heating an aerosol generating substrate; a storage unit configured to store information regarding a first time period and a second time period for controlling a temperature of the heater; and a controller configured to control power supplied to the heater, wherein the controller, when the first time period time elapses after the temperature of the heater reaches the first target temperature, changes the temperature of the heater to a second target temperature for the second time period, and the sum of the first time period and the second time period is a time period in a preset change.

Abstract: A heater assembly includes a heating layer having at least a portion including a susceptor material generating heat by an external magnetic field and having a cylindrical shape therein in which an accommodation space configured to accommodate the cigarette is formed, an insulating layer surrounding at least a portion of an outer side surface of the heating layer, and a sensor pattern embedded in the insulating layer and configured to measure a temperature.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating device comprising: a heater for heating a first material a solid phase and a second material in a liquid phase; and a controller for controlling power supplied to the heater, wherein as the heater is powered, a first aerosol generated from the first material and a second aerosol generated from the second material are released.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating device. The aerosol generating device includes: an accommodation part into which a cigarette is capable of being inserted; and a heating element passing through a hole formed in a bottom surface of the accommodation part, protruding into the accommodation part and capable of heating the cigarette inserted into the accommodation part, wherein, on the bottom-surface, the ratio of a cross-sectional area of the hole with respect to a cross-sectional area of the heating element is greater than or equal to 1.8.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cathode for a lithium secondary battery, which has a coating layer formed on an edge portion of a cathode plate, a method of manufacturing the cathode, and a lithium secondary battery including the cathode. The cathode includes a cathode plate and a coating layer formed at an edge portion of the cathode plate, in which the cathode plate includes a cathode current collector provided with cathode tab and a cathode active material laminated on at least one surface of the cathode current collector, and the coating layer includes a conductive polymer layer and an insulating coating layer.