Abstract: A smoking system includes a consumable containing a smokable substance and a device that includes a chamber receiving the consumable and heats and atomizes the smokable substance of the consumable received in 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 first pressing unit which presses a part of the consumable. The consumable includes a first portion having a first hardness and a second portion having a second hardness, in which the second portion is a different portion from the first portion in the insertion direction of the consumable. When the consumable is positioned at the desired position in the chamber, the consumable is positioned such that at least a part of the first portion is pressed against the first pressing unit, while at the same time, at least a part of the second portion is pressed against the first pressing unit.

Abstract: This aerosol generation system including an elongated heat generation unit that, when energized, generates heat to heat an aerosol generating substrate from the inside thereof; and a pair of metal plates disposed to respectively cover the facing surfaces of the heating unit along the elongated shape. The electrical resistance value of the heating unit in the direction in which the pair of metal plates faces each other is 100 to 1400 times the electrical resistance value of each of the pair of metal plates in the longitudinal direction of the elongated shape.

Abstract: An aerosol generation system that generates aerosol by heating an aerosol generation product containing an aerosol source, and comprises: an accommodation part that has an internal space and an opening through which the internal space communicates with the outside, and that accommodates the aerosol generation product inserted into the internal space though the opening; a first electrically-insulating part, which is an electrically-insulating film-like member disposed outward of the accommodation part; an electrical resistance part that is disposed outward of the first electrically-insulating part and generates heat when energized; and a heat radiation suppressing part that is disposed further outward than the electrical resistance part and suppresses heat radiation.

Abstract: This aerosol generation system including a heating unit for heating an aerosol generation component, and an electric power supply unit for supplying electric power to the heating unit. The heating unit has a ceramic part, an electricity-resistant part that is disposed inside the ceramic part and that generates heat due to the electric power supplied from the electric power supply unit, and a metal electrode that is disposed in close contact with the vicinity of the ceramic part and that electrically connects the electricity-resistant part and the electric power supply unit. The heating unit is inserted into the aerosol generation component.

Abstract: A smoking system includes a consumable containing a smokable substance and a device that includes a chamber receiving the consumable and heats and atomizes the smokable substance of the consumable received in 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 first pressing unit which presses a part of the consumable. The consumable includes a first portion having a first hardness and a second portion having a second hardness, in which the second portion is a different portion from the first portion in the insertion direction of the consumable. When the consumable is positioned at the desired position in the chamber, the consumable is positioned such that at least a part of the first portion is pressed against the first pressing unit, while at the same time, at least a part of the second portion is pressed against the first pressing unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cooling device for cooling a constituent element housed in a housing of a unit subjected to an influence of a generated magnetic field includes a water cooling mechanism and at least one air cooling mechanism. The water cooling mechanism cools the constituent element by cooling a cooling plate with a flow of water flowing through a pipe passing through the cooling plate arranged in the housing. The air cooling mechanism is arranged on an outgoing side where the flow of water flowing through the pipe is outgoing from the housing and cools the constituent element by discharging air in the housing along with the water flow in accordance with the water flow.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generation system capable of controlling the temperature distribution in a substrate to be heated. This aerosol generation system comprises: an elongated heat generation unit that, when energized, generates heat to heat an aerosol generating substrate from the inside thereof; and a pair of metal plates disposed to respectively cover the facing surfaces of the heat generation unit along the elongated shape. The heat generation unit includes at least two regions having different heat quantities.

Abstract: An aerosol generation system including a power supply unit that supplies power, and a heating unit that heats a base material containing an aerosol source. The heating unit is inserted in the base material and includes an electrical resistor that generates heat by using the power supplied from the power supply unit, a rigid body, and an electrical insulator disposed between the electrical resistor and the rigid body.

Abstract: This aerosol generation system is provided with a power supply unit for supplying electric power; a heating unit for heating a substrate containing an aerosol source; and a holding unit for holding the heating unit. The heating unit is inserted into the substrate and comprises: an electric resistor that generates heat using electric power supplied from the power supply unit; a rigid body; and an electric insulator disposed between the electric resistor and the rigid body. The rigid body has a first portion extending in a first direction in which the substrate is inserted or removed and a second portion extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The holding unit holds the second portion of the rigid body.

Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol generating device, includes a power supply, a heater connector connected to a heater configured to heat an aerosol source by consuming power supplied from the power supply, thermistors, thermistor connectors connected to the thermistors, a first circuit board, and a second circuit board separate from the first circuit board. The heater connector is disposed on the second circuit board of the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The number of the thermistor connectors disposed on the first circuit board is larger than the number of the thermistor connectors disposed on the second circuit board.

Abstract: An aerosol generation system including: an accommodating unit into which an aerosol generation article is to be inserted; a heating unit for heating the aerosol generation article inserted into the accommodating unit; and an electric power supply unit for supplying the heating unit with electric power, wherein the heating unit includes a film-shaped electrical insulating unit having one or more cutouts and an electrical resistance unit disposed on the electrical insulating unit and producing heat with electric power supplied from the electric power supply unit, and the heating unit is disposed around the accommodating unit.

Abstract: This aerosol generation system is provided with a power supply unit for supplying electric power; and a heating unit for heating a substrate containing an aerosol source. The heating unit is inserted into the substrate and comprises: an electric resistor that generates heat using electric power supplied from the power supply unit; two electric insulators sandwiching the electric resistor; and a first rigid body and a second rigid body that differ in size and that sandwich the electric resistor and the two electric insulators.

Abstract: Provided is a flavor inhaler comprising a casing, an atomizer that is housed in the casing and that generates heat, a temperature sensor that is located near the atomizer, and a wire that is electrically connected to the temperature sensor, wherein the wire extends from the temperature sensor so as to be away from the atomizer.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generation system wherein the influence of heat from a heating unit to an inhalation device is further reduced. This aerosol generation system is provided with: an elongated heat generation unit that, when energized, generates heat to heat an aerosol generating substrate from the inside thereof; a pair of metal plates disposed to respectively cover the facing surfaces of the heat generation unit along the elongated shape; and a fixing unit that fixes the pair of metal plates to a housing.

Abstract: This aerosol generation system including: an elongated heat generation unit that, when energized, generates heat to heat an aerosol generating substrate from the inside thereof; and a pair of metal plates disposed to respectively cover the facing surfaces of the heat generation unit along the elongated shape. At least one of the pair of metal plates comprises a rib portion formed by folding at least one side end in the short direction of the elongated shape along the heat generation unit.

Abstract: A flavour inhaler includes a heater having a main surface and an end surface for heating a smokable material. The heater generates heat by the flow of current in the direction orthogonal to the main surface.

Abstract: An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention appropriately attaches a heat-insulating material to the outside of a storage section. This flavor inhaler has a storage section for storing a consumable material, a heating element for heating the consumable material, a heat-insulating member provided to the outer periphery of the storage section, and a first tape member which is stuck to the heat-insulating member. The first tape member has a first section which extends from a first end section in the circumferential direction of the heat-insulating member, and a second section which is positioned on the heat-insulating member or extends from the heat-insulating member. The first section is stuck to the second section.

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: This heat-not-burn tobacco product is provided with an electric heating device and a tobacco stick. The tobacco stick is provided with: a tobacco rod part having a tobacco filler including cut tobacco; and a mouthpiece part coaxially connected to the tobacco rod part. The electric heating device has a hollow piping heater shaped to form a heating chamber in the inside thereof. The hollow piping heater has: a compression tube part that compresses the tobacco rod part from the outer circumferential side when the tobacco stick is inserted; and a heating wall part that is at least partially formed by the compression tube part and heats the tobacco rod part from the outer circumferential side. The tobacco filler is rolled in rolling paper such that the cut tobacco is in a randomly oriented state.