Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
  • A24F40/00—Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor
  • A24F40/20—Devices using solid inhalable precursors
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
  • A24F40/00—Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor
  • A24F40/40—Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
  • A24F40/00—Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor
  • A24F40/50—Control or monitoring
  • A24F40/51—Arrangement of sensors
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
  • A24F40/00—Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor
  • A24F40/50—Control or monitoring
  • A24F40/53—Monitoring, e.g. fault detection
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
  • A24F40/00—Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor
  • A24F40/60—Devices with integrated user interfaces
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
  • A24F47/00—Smokers' requisites not otherwise provided for

Definitions

• the present disclosure relates to a cover and an aerosol generation device.
• Inhaler devices capable of detecting biological information of a user have been proposed.
• PTL 1 describes an inhaler device including an operation unit operated by a user and a biological-information detector that detects biological information of the user.
• the biological-information detector is disposed on or near the operation unit.
• Fig. 1 is an example of a front view of an aerosol generation device 1 from an upper position.
• the power feeder 112 supplies electric power to the cover 10 by, for example, contactless power transmission.
• An example of contactless power transmission is power transmission by near-field communication. This enables supply of electric power to the cover 10 by a simple configuration.
• the front face 102 of the housing 101 has a display window 108 that transmits light emitted from the light-emitting device, such as the LED, as an example of the notifier 130.
• the light-emitting device is disposed behind the display window 108.
• the memory 140 stores various information for the operation of the generation device 1.
• the memory 140 includes, for example, a non-volatile storage medium, such as a flash memory.
• An example of the information stored in the memory 140 is information related to the operating system (OS) of the generation device 1, such as control details of the structural elements controlled by the controller 160.
• Another example of the information stored in the memory 140 is information related to the user's inhalation, such as the number of inhalations, the time of inhalation, and the cumulative duration of inhalation.
• Another example of the information stored in the memory 140 is information related to a control sequence specifying the temporal change in the target temperature of the heater 170 during heating of the heater 170.
• the memory 140 may store information related to multiple types of control sequences with different temporal changes in the target temperature of the heater 170.
• the communicator 150 is a communication interface for transmission and reception of information between the generation device 1 and another device.
• the communicator 150 performs communication in conformity with any wired or wireless communication standard.
• the communication standard may be, for example, wireless local area network (LAN), wired LAN, Wi-Fi (registered trademark), or Bluetooth (registered trademark).
• the communicator 150 transmits information related to the user's inhalation to another device (e.g., a portable terminal described below) to cause the other device to display the information related to the user's inhalation.
• the communicator 150 receives new OS information from a server to update the OS information stored in the memory 140.
• the controller 160 functions as an arithmetic processing unit and a control unit, and controls the overall internal operation of the generation device 1 in accordance with various programs.
• the controller 160 is implemented by, for example, an electronic circuit, such as a central processing unit (CPU) or a microprocessor.
• the controller 160 may also include a read only memory (ROM) that stores programs, arithmetic parameters, and the like to be used and a random access memory (RAM) for temporarily storing parameters and the like that change as appropriate.
• ROM read only memory
• RAM random access memory
• Either the magnets on the cover 10 (upper magnet 71 and lower magnet 72) or the magnets on the body 100 (upper magnet 195 and lower magnet 196) may be pieces of iron or another magnetic metal.
• the external sensor 31 included in the sensor unit 30 is preferably provided at one of the ends of the cover 10 in the centerline direction, in other words, in a first region R1 above the upper magnet 71 or a second region R2 below the lower magnet 72 in Fig. 4 .
• the external sensor 31 When, for example, the external sensor 31 is an optical sensor, the external sensor 31 includes a light-emitting element for emitting light toward a finger or the like placed in front of the front face 12 of the cover body 11 and a light-receiving element for receiving the light emitted by the light-emitting element and returning from the finger or the like. Therefore, the detection cannot be accurately performed if dirt adheres to a portion that transmits light.
• the external sensor 31 is disposed in a region that is unlikely to be touched by the user, so that dirt does not easily adhere to the front face 12 of the cover 10. Accordingly, the detection can be accurately performed.
• the external sensor 31 since the external sensor 31 is disposed in the first region R1, the external sensor 31 does not easily receive the load applied by the user.
• the external sensor 31 may also be disposed in the second region R2 below the lower magnet 72. This is because, even when the generation device 1 is held in the right or left hand for inhalation using the generation device 1, the second region R2 is where the little finger is placed and does not easily receive the load applied by the user.
• the external sensor 31 is a sensor other than an optical sensor (e.g., a temperature sensor or a humidity sensor)
• the external sensor 31 may be disposed in the first region R1 or the second region R2, so that the external sensor 31 does not easily receive the load applied by the user and therefore does not easily break.
• the controller 60 includes an output unit 61 (see Fig. 6 ) that outputs the information detected by the external sensor 31 of the sensor unit 30 to the external device through the communicator 50.
• the controller 60 also includes a display controller 62 (see Fig. 6 ) that causes the display 80 to display the information detected by the external sensor 31 of the sensor unit 30.
• the output unit 61 outputs, for example, the biological information detected by the vital sensor, which is an example of the external sensor 31, to the controller 160 of the body 100.
• Figs. 10 and 11 illustrate examples of information displayed on the display 80.
• the memory 40 may store a predetermined temperature range as a temperature range suitable for storage of the substrate 500 and a predetermined humidity range as a humidity range suitable for storage. Then, when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is within the predetermined temperature range and the humidity detected by the humidity sensor is within the predetermined humidity range, the display controller 62 may cause the display 80 to display the temperature detected by the temperature sensor and the humidity detected by the humidity sensor together with a notification that the temperature and the humidity are suitable for storage.
• the display controller 62 may cause the display 80 to display information acquired by a portable terminal, such as a mobile phone, and received from the portable terminal through the communicator 50.
• the display controller 62 may cause the display 80 to display an email or a message received by the mobile phone.
• the generation device 1 may restrict the heater 170 from being heated if the value detected by the vital sensor included in the sensor unit 30 is outside a predetermined range.
• the predetermined range of the detection value of the vital sensor in which the heating of the heater 170 is allowed may be referred to as a "predetermined allowable range”.
• the memory 140 stores the predetermined allowable range for each type of biological information. Then, the controller 160 of the body 100 may acquire the detection value of the vital sensor from the cover 10 and restrict the heater 170 from being heated when the detection value is outside the predetermined allowable range.
• the controller 160 determines whether or not a heating command is issued (S1201).
• the issuance of the heating command may be, for example, a predetermined operation performed on the display 80.
• the predetermined operation may be, for example, a continuous touch on an icon displayed on the display 80 for a predetermined time (e.g., 3 seconds).
• a heating command is issued (YES in S1201)
• the controller 160 determines whether or not the cover 10 is attached (S1202). This process is a process of determining whether or not the magnetic sensor 122 has detected magnetic force.

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