Smoking appliance
AssigneeJapan Tobacco Inc.
InventorMichihiro Inagaki
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a smoking appliance which can heat a filter medium for eliminating particulate phase components in tobacco smoke to a desired temperature precisely as well as can ensure safety for the smoker. According to the present invention, there is provided a smoking appliance including a holder having a through hole serving as a smoke passage, which detachably holds a filter medium in a middle of the smoke passage, a heater attached to the holder at a location upstream to the filter medium, a heat insulator attached to the holder at a location upstream to the heater, and a metal plate which covers surfaces of the heater facing the filter medium and the smoke passage.
Claims7
A smoking appliance comprising:
- a holder having a through hole serving as a smoke passage, which detachably holds a filter medium in a middle of the smoke passage;
- a heater attached to the holder at a location upstream to the filter medium;
- a heat insulator attached to the holder at a location upstream to the heater;
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- a metal plate which covers surfaces of the heater facing the filter medium and the smoke passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.