Abstract: A consumable article equips an aerosol generation device and includes a receptacle containing an aerosol-forming substance arranged for generating an aerosol when it is heated and mixed with air, and a first tubular member having a peripheral wall including a first end connected to an open end of this receptacle, at least one air inlet allowing entry of air into the first tubular member for feeding the receptacle open end, and a second end opposed to this first end and including an outlet for discharging the generated aerosol.

Abstract: In a crawler type work machine, when switching from a pivot turning mode to a straight travel mode or a slow turning mode, a controller is configured to maintain a rotation speed of the turning motor until after a first timing at which the inside steering clutch begins partial engagement.

Abstract: A puncture needle according to the present disclosure includes a puncture portion having a blade surface at a distal-end surface; and a retained portion connected to a proximal-end puncture-portion side and configured to be retained by a hub. The puncture portion includes a slit extending to the distal-end surface. The retained portion includes: a tubular portion having a substantially constant outer diameter larger than a maximum outer diameter of the puncture portion, and a tapered portion located between the puncture portion and the tubular portion, an outer diameter of the tapered portion gradually decreasing from a tubular-portion side to a puncture-portion side, wherein in a lateral view with the slit facing upward, lower contour lines of the puncture portion, the tubular portion, and the tapered portion are collinear.

Abstract: A light emitting device in which a light emitting element layer including a plurality of light emitting elements, a first substrate including at least a part of each of a plurality of unit circuits respectively connected to the plurality of light emitting elements, and a second substrate including at least a part of a control circuit configured to control the plurality of unit circuits are stacked. The device includes a first protective circuit arranged in the first substrate, and configured to protect the plurality of unit circuits, wherein a maximum voltage in the first substrate is higher than a maximum voltage in the second substrate.

Abstract: A light emitting device in which a first substrate including a first semiconductor substrate and a first wiring layer, a second substrate including a second semiconductor substrate and a second wiring layer, and a light emitting layer are stacked. The light emitting layer is arranged between a structure including the first substrate and the second substrate and a predetermined virtual plane. At least one of the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer includes a pad electrode. The light emitting layer and the structure include an aperture that exposes the pad electrode to the virtual plane.

Abstract: A flavor inhaler comprising: a tubular holder that extends from a mouthpiece end to a distal end; a combustion type heat source that is provided at the distal end, contains activated carbon, and carries a first flavorant; and a flavor source that is held in the holder and carries a second flavorant, wherein the first flavorant contains at least one selected from the group consisting of anethole, 2-pinene, 3-citronellol, linalyl acetate, limonene, anisaldehyde, 4-terpineol, 2-?-pinene, jasmone, sabinene, linalool, 1,8-cineole, phenethyl alcohol, and myristicin, and the second flavorant contains at least one selected from the group consisting of ?-terpinene, ?-terpinene, nerol, geraniol, and decanal.

Abstract: A sensor includes: a tubular needle member that includes a side wall and defines a hollow portion; and a linear detection member located in the hollow portion. The side wall of the needle member includes a thick portion that is thicker than another portion of the side wall in a cross-section of the needle member, and wherein the thick portion protrudes toward the hollow portion.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device includes: an aerosol generation chamber configured to receive a consumable having a portion of aerosol generating substrate; and a loading channel extending through the aerosol generation device and intersecting with the aerosol generation chamber. The loading channel includes a loading port at one end through which a consumable can be pushed into the loading channel, and the loading channel is configured to hold a plurality of consumables pushed along the loading channel towards the aerosol generation chamber by addition of a further consumable at the loading port. An aerosol generation system includes: the aerosol generation device—including a plurality of the consumables in the loading channel, and a heating element configured to heat a portion of aerosol generating substrate in the aerosol generation chamber.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device includes: a housing; a heating chamber arranged in the housing for generating an aerosol by heating a consumable; a cradle including a recess for holding the consumable; a slot extending through the housing and configured to receive the cradle and to position the cradle in a first position where the consumable is held in the heating chamber; and a compression element configured to compress the consumable in the recess of the cradle.

Abstract: A system includes an aerosol generating device and a portion of aerosol generating substrate, the device including first and second housing elements configured to move between open and closed positions, wherein, in the closed position, the housing elements together define an aerosol generation chamber configured to enclose the portion, and further define an air flow channel including an inlet, an outlet and the chamber, the first housing element including a recess for receiving the portion, wherein the recess includes a flat bottom surface, and the second housing element includes a compression surface for compressing the portion towards the bottom surface, the compression and bottom surfaces being opposing surfaces of the chamber, wherein the portion is cuboid and a thickness of the portion before use in the device is greater than a distance between the compression and bottom surfaces when the first and second housing elements are in the closed position.

Abstract: A needle member includes: a tubular side wall through which a hollow portion extends in a longitudinal direction. An opening portion connected to the hollow portion extends laterally through the tubular side wall. The tubular side wall comprises a side wall reinforcement portion located at a position opposing the opening portion, wherein the hollow portion is interposed between the opening portion and the side wall reinforcement portion.

Abstract: A cartridge for a vapour generating device includes a fluid permeable heater and a porous liquid transfer element. The porous liquid transfer element is configured to convey vapour generating liquid to the fluid permeable heater and has one or more recesses accommodating at least part of the fluid permeable heater.

Abstract: A puncture apparatus includes: a needle member having a tubular shape and comprising a flexible portion that is deformable; and a puncture assisting member that is movable or deformable in an axial direction of the needle member between: a restricting position in which the puncture assisting member is located outside the flexible portion of the needle member in a radial direction of the needle member, and thereby restricts deformation of the flexible portion, and a permissive position in which the puncture assisting member is not located outside the flexible portion in the radial direction, and thereby permits deformation of the flexible portion. The puncture assisting member is configured to move or deform from the restricting position to the permissive position in conjunction with an operation of inserting the flexible portion into a living body at a time of puncturing the living body with the needle member.

Abstract: A flavor inhaler includes a tubular holder that extends from a mouthpiece end toward a distal end, a flavor source that is provided in the holder, and a combustion type heat source that is provided at the distal end, and includes a protruding portion protruding from the distal end and a flavorant carried on the protruding portion.

Abstract: A technique which, while avoiding excessive conduction of heat to the flavor source, reduces variance of heat conduction, and which makes it possible to reduce the weight and the cost of the flavor inhaler is disclosed. A flavor inhaler which, provided with a cylindrical holding member extending along a prescribed direction from a lighting end to a non-lighting end, includes a combustion-type heat source disposed at the lighting end, a flavor source which, in the prescribed direction, is arranged towards the non-lighting end with respect to the combustion-type heat source, and a cup-shape cup member which holds the flavor source and has a side wall and a bottom plate.

Abstract: An aerosol inhaler cartridge is provided with a liquid storage unit and a thin metal heater. The metal heater has an obverse face, a reverse face, and a side face joining the obverse face and the reverse face, and is provided, on at least a part of the side face, with a tapered protrusion that protrudes in a tapered shape in a direction different from an imaginary line extending from the obverse face to the reverse face. The tapered protrusion has: a first tapered face formed in an inwardly curving manner extending from an obverse edge part whereat the obverse face and the side face are joined to the tip of the tapered protrusion; and a second tapered face formed in an inwardly curving manner extending from a reverse edge part whereat the reverse face and the side face are joined to the tip of the tapered protrusion.

Abstract: Provided is a method for determining a laser irradiation state whereby the output of a laser can be acquired with high accuracy.

Abstract: An imaging device includes: pixels each including a photoelectric converter, and an output unit that outputs a pixel signal based on charge in a holding portion; an output line to which signals from the pixels are output; a clip circuit that limits a signal level of the output line to a range whose upper or lower limit is a predetermined clip level; and an amplifier unit that amplifies a signal of the output line. The amplifier unit outputs first and second signals amplified at first and second amplification factors, respectively, for the same pixel signal. The clip circuit limits a signal level of the output line to a first clip level in a first period in which the pixel signal is amplified at a first amplification factor and to a second clip level in a second period in which the pixel signal is amplified at a second amplification factor.

Abstract: An insertion device for inserting a medical device into a living body includes: a needle portion internally defining an accommodation space configured to accommodate the medical device and configured to be inserted into a living body together with the medical device accommodated in the accommodation space; and a movable portion that is movable with respect to the needle portion in the accommodation space in a direction of insertion of the needle portion. The needle portion comprises a clamping portion configured to change a form in the accommodation space between a first form in which the clamping portion clamps the medical device accommodated in the accommodation space and a second form in which the clamping portion does not clamp the medical device accommodated in the accommodation space. The movable portion engages the clamping portion to change the form of the clamping portion from the first form to the second form.

Abstract: An insertion device is an insertion device configured to insert a medical device into a living body, including a needle portion to which at least a portion of the medical device is adhered and being inserted into the living body together with the adhered medical device; and a movable portion configured to be movable relatively to the needle portion in a direction of insertion of the needle portion, wherein the movable portion moves relatively to the needle portion in the direction of insertion to cut an adhered region between the medical device and the needle portion and separate the medical device and the needle portion.