# US 10,368,583 B2 · Non-burning-type flavor inhaler > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,368,583 B2 - Document ID: US10368583B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/340,175 - Filed: 2016-11-01 - Published: 2017-02-16 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-05-02 - Assignees: Japan Tobacco Inc. - Applicants: Japan Tobacco Inc. - Inventors: Manabu Takeuchi; Akihiko Suzuki; Takuma Nakano; Manabu Yamada - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10368583B2 ## CPC - A61M 15/06: Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes - A24F 7/02: with detachable connecting members - A24F 40/50: Control or monitoring - A24F 40/53: Monitoring, e.g. fault detection - A61M 11/042: {electrical} - H05B 1/0244: {Heating of fluids (H05B1/0247 takes precedence)} - A24F 40/10: Devices using liquid inhalable precursors - A24F 40/20: Devices using solid inhalable precursors - A61M 2205/27: preventing use - A61M 2205/3653: by Joule effect, i.e. electric resistance - A61M 2205/50: with microprocessors or computers - A61M 2205/587: Lighting arrangements - A61M 2205/60: with identification means - A61M 2205/8206: battery-operated - H05B 2203/021: Heaters specially adapted for heating liquids - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} - A24F: SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES (inhaling appliances for medical purposes, shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes A61M15/06) - H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL ## Abstract A non-burning type flavor inhaler comprises: a housing having an air flow path that continues from an inlet to an outlet; an atomizer configured to atomize an aerosol source without burning; a sensor configured to output a value that changes in accordance with a puff action of a user; and a controller configured to detect a puff action of the user when a response value derived from a value that is output from the sensor satisfies an inhaling condition, the controller configured to identify that the user is an authorized user when the response value satisfies an identification condition that is different from the inhaling condition. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A non-burning type flavor inhaler, comprising: a housing having an air flow path that continues from an inlet to an outlet; an atomizer configured to atomize an aerosol source without burning; a sensor configured to output a value that changes in accordance with a puff action of a user; and a controller configured to detect a puff action of the user when a response value derived from a value that is output from the sensor satisfies an inhaling condition, the controller configured to identify that the user is an authorized user when the response value satisfies an identification condition that is different from the inhaling condition. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines, for each one-time puff action, whether or not the inhaling condition is satisfied and whether or not the identification condition is satisfied. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines whether or not the identification condition is satisfied after the inhaling condition is satisfied. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 1, wherein the controller determines, on the basis of an inclination configured by two or more of the response values or an absolute value of the response value, whether or not at least one of the inhaling condition and the identification condition is satisfied. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 4, wherein the inhaling condition is that the absolute value exceeds a predetermined absolute value, and the identification condition is that the inclination exceeds a predetermined inclination. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 4, wherein the inhaling condition is that an absolute value of the response value exceeds a first absolute value, and the identification condition is that an absolute value of the response value exceeds a second absolute value that is larger than the first absolute value. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 1, wherein the controller uses a first identification condition as the identification condition in a first puff action, and uses a second identification condition that is different from the first identification condition as the identification condition in a second puff action performed after the first identification condition is satisfied. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 7, wherein the controller uses the first identification condition when a specific condition is satisfied after the first identification condition is satisfied. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 1, wherein the controller starts a supply of power source output to the atomizer when the identification condition is satisfied. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 1, wherein the controller starts a supply of power source output to the atomizer when the inhaling condition is satisfied, and the controller stops the supply of the power source output to the atomizer when the identification condition is not satisfied after the inhaling condition is satisfied. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 1, wherein the controller has an action mode by which a supply of power source output to the atomizer is performed on the basis of the response value, and an identification mode by which it is determined, on the basis of the response value, whether or not the identification condition is satisfied, and the action mode starts after the identification condition is satisfied in the identification mode. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 11, wherein in the identification mode, the controller determines whether or not the identification condition is satisfied, on the basis of whether or not a profile represented by two or more of the response values in a space defined by a first axis indicating a dimension of the response value and a second axis indicating a time length corresponds to an identification profile. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 12, wherein the identification profile is either registered beforehand or registered by the user. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 11, wherein the controller ends the action mode when a profile represented by two or more of the response values in a space defined by a first axis indicating a dimension of the response value and a second axis indicating a time length corresponds to a cancellation profile. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 11, wherein the controller resets the identification profile when a profile represented by two or more of the response values in a space defined by a first axis indicating a dimension of the response value and a second axis indicating a time length corresponds to a reset profile. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 14, wherein the cancellation profile or the reset profile is the identification profile. ### Claim 17 (depends on 12) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 12, comprising a notification portion configured to notify a user of the identification profile, the cancellation profile or the reset profile. ### Claim 18 (depends on 12) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 12, wherein the controller determines, on the basis of a stringency selected from among a plurality of stages of stringency, whether or not the profile corresponds to the identification profile, the cancellation profile or the reset profile, and the flavor inhaler comprises an operation interface for switching the plurality of stages of stringency. ### Claim 19 (depends on 12) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 12, wherein the identification profile, the cancellation profile or the reset profile is defined by an absolute value of the response value, by whether or not the response value is a value based on inhaling, by whether or not the response value is a value based on blowing, by a sampling cycle of the response value, or by one or more parameters selected from among these parameters. ### Claim 20 (depends on 12) The non-burning type flavor inhaler according to claim 12, comprising a mouthpiece member configured to be replaceable with respect to the housing, wherein the mouthpiece member comprises a memory configured to store the identification profile.