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: 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.

Abstract: Provided is a flavor generating article comprising a susceptor-containing sheet which is flat and contains a susceptor material and a first sheet and a second sheet each of which has a wave shape and which are arranged on both sides of the susceptor-containing sheet. At least one of the susceptor-containing sheet, the first sheet, and the second sheet contains tobacco.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An aerosol generation system including: a generation unit that generates an aerosol using a base material containing an aerosol source; a communication unit that sends and receives information wirelessly; a sensor unit that detects a user's operation applied to the aerosol generation system; and a control unit that controls the connection procedures with another aerosol generation system by the communication unit on the basis of a predetermined user's operation detected by the sensor unit.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An information processing device including a control unit that controls a customization process including setting a parameter relating to the temperature to which an aerosol source is heated or accepting setting of an evaluation for an aerosol generated on the basis of control information reflecting the set parameter, the control unit generating a display image for displaying a mark that indicates the parameter set in the customization process in a prior instance and a mark that indicates the parameter set in the customization process in a current instance, and/or displaying and a mark that indicates the evaluation set in the customization process in the prior instance and a mark that indicates the evaluation set in the customization process in the current instance.

Abstract: 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.

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.