Abstract: A medical procedure preparation system includes an input interface, a display, at least one a processor. The at least one processor is configured to receive an input containing (i) a medical procedure location where a medical procedure is performed, and (ii) a storage location where a medical device is stored, calculate (iii) a distance between (i) and (ii), calculate one of (a) a preparation start time of the medical device used in the medical procedure and (b) a performing time of the medical procedure using the medical device based on (iii) and (iv), and output a display image indicating one of (a) and (b) to the display. Calculation one of (a) and (b) is based on (iii) the distance and (iv) a movement speed of a transport device.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A flavor source filling container includes a bottom wall forming a bottom portion, and a susceptor element. The flavor source filling container contains a filling including a flavor source and an aerosol source therein. The filling has an exposed surface that is a surface exposed to an inner space in the flavor-filled container and intersecting with a direction in which a generated aerosol is drawn by inhalation of a user. The susceptor element is disposed so as to be placed in contact with the exposed surface of the filling and cover at least a part of the exposed surface.

Abstract: An aerosol generation apparatus comprises a power supply, a load in which an electric resistance value changes depending on a temperature, a first sensor, a second sensor, a first circuit including a first switch, a second circuit including a second switch, and has an electric resistance value higher than an electric resistance value of the first circuit, and a circuitry configured to estimate a residual quantity of the aerosol source based on the value output by the first sensor when the second switch is in an on state, wherein a period during which the output is generated by the second sensor includes a time point at which the second switch become an on state when the first switch is in an on state or a time point at which the second switch Q2 turns an on state and the first switch Q1 turns an off state.

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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device comprising a control unit that, in accordance with a user operation, changes control information which is used by an aerosol generating device that heats an aerosol source included in a base material to generate an aerosol and which stipulates a time series transition in a parameter relating to a temperature at which the aerosol source is heated. If a user operation for changing the parameter at a first time stipulated by the control information has been implemented, the control unit sets a second time earlier than the first time and changes the control information such that the change in the parameter begins at the second time and arrives at the changed parameter at the first time.

Abstract: This information processing device is used by an aerosol generating device that generates aerosols by heating an aerosol source included in a substrate. The information processing device includes a control unit that changes control information in accordance with an evaluation which is input with respect to aerosols generated using the control information which stipulates the chronological change of a parameter related to the temperature for heating the aerosol sources.

Abstract: A system comprising: an inhalation device that generates an aerosol by heating an aerosol source on the basis of control information which defines a parameter pertaining to the temperature to which the aerosol source is to be heated; a terminal device that receives an operation for generating the control information; and a control device that associates a user and a right granted to the user and stores the same, wherein the terminal device and/or the control device carry out a process pertaining to the control information generation and corresponding to the right granted to the user of the terminal device.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting device includes a base portion, a liquid ejecting portion movably provided at the base portion, a medium supporting portion provided at the base portion and configured to support a printing medium in a printing region where the liquid ejecting portion performs printing, and a maintenance portion disposed in a region on the +X direction side of the printing region in the X-axis direction in the base portion. The maintenance portion includes a moisturizing portion that can form a closed space to which nozzle opens, a cleaning portion that can forcibly discharge liquid from the nozzle, and a wiper that can wipe a nozzle surface where the nozzle is provided. The moisturizing portion, the cleaning portion and the wiper are disposed side by side in the Y-axis direction.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device comprises: a power source; a storage part stores an aerosol source or an aerosol substrate that holds an aerosol source; a load that has a temperature-variable electrical resistance value and, by generating heat due to supply of power from the power source, atomizes aerosol source supplied from the storage part or aerosol source held by the aerosol substrate; a circuit electrically connects the power source and the load; and a control part that, on the basis of a first value of the voltage applied to the entire circuit and a second 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 load, determines whether there is a shortage of aerosol source that can be supplied from the storage part or aerosol source held by the aerosol substrate.

Abstract: Provided are: A collector containing a compound that increases the recovery amount of a target mineral; a flotation method that uses this compound; and a compound that is suitable as a collector. This collector includes a compound represented by the following formula (1). (In formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 or more and 18 or less carbon atoms, and X represents NR2R3, SR4, or OR5, and R2-3 each represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 or more and 18 or less carbon atoms, and R4-5 each represent an alkyl group having 1 or more and 18 or less carbon atoms.

Abstract: An information processing device used by an inhalation device for heating an aerosol source contained in a substrate on the basis of control information stipulating a parameter relating to a temperature to which the aerosol source is to be heated to generate an aerosol, the information processing device comprising a control unit for controlling a customization process including generating a display image displaying an operation subject for setting the parameter included in the control information, and changing the parameter included in the control information in accordance with a user operation on the operation subject displayed in the generated display image. When repeatedly executing the customization process, the control unit sets a method for changing the parameter in a subsequent customization process on the basis of change content for the parameter in the previous customization process.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: In order to detect the occurrence of malfunction in a sensor, this power supply unit is provided with a microphone condenser which detects an aerosol generation request, a PTC thermistor which outputs a value which changes depending on electric change in the microphone condenser, and a control portion which, on the basis of the value outputted by the PTC thermistor, detects whether the microphone condenser is in a normal state or an abnormal state.

Abstract: 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, L1 is a shortest distance between an inner surface of the sleeve and the outer surface of the pressing unit and L2 is a shortest distance between the inner surface of the sleeve and the outer surface of the non-pressing unit of the chamber, and L1 is greater than L2.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Provided is a flavour inhaler comprising an accommodating part that is configured to accommodate a consumable product includes: an opening; a first space formation part that forms a space over the entire periphery; a second space formation part that forms a space over the entire periphery; a first support part that is positioned between the first space formation part and the second space formation part in the longitudinal direction of the accommodating part and presses the outer peripheral surface of the consumable product to support the consumable product; and a second support part that is positioned at the opposite side of the second space formation part from the opening in the longitudinal direction of the accommodating part and presses the outer peripheral surface of the consumable product to support the consumable product.

Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply that is able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a control unit that is configured to control at least one of charging and discharging of the power supply such that the power supply does not become one or both of a fully charged state and a discharging termination state.