Flavor inhaler
AssigneeJapan Tobacco Inc.
InventorMichihiro Inagaki
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Abstract
A non-heating, non-combustion type flavor inhaler including a supply flow path unit including a first flow path leading aerosol toward a user side and a suction port, a liquid holding unit accommodating an aerosol base, a second flow path having one end communicating with the liquid holding unit and the other end which is located in the supply flow path unit and is opened toward the suction port side, and having a conductive portion, a liquid feeding system feeding the aerosol base, a power supply and a control unit applying a voltage to the conductive portion, to atomize the aerosol base and to eject the aerosol from an opening of the other end, and a static elimination unit neutralizing charge of the aerosol ejected from the opening.
Claims14
A non-heating, non-combustion type flavor inhaler comprising:
- a supply flow path unit comprising a first flow path leading aerosol toward a user side and a suction port for inhaling the aerosol by the user;
- an aerosol generation system comprising:
- a liquid holding unit accommodating an aerosol base which is a material of the aerosol;
- a tube member having a first end communicating with the liquid holding unit and a second end which is located in the supply flow path unit and is opened toward the suction port, and having an electrically conductive portion on the second end;
- a liquid feeding system feeding the aerosol base accommodated in the liquid holding unit from the first end to the second end;
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- a power supply and a control unit applying a voltage to the electrically conductive portion, to atomize the aerosol base and to eject the aerosol from an opening of the second end;
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- a static elimination unit positioned in the supply flow path unit and neutralizing charge of the aerosol ejected from the open second end,
- wherein the second end of the tube member is positioned in the first flow path between the static elimination unit and the suction port of the supply flow path unit, and
- wherein the static elimination unit is configured to charge a particle in the gas inside the first flow path with opposite polarity of charges to the aerosol atomized by the electrically conductive portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.