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AssigneeJapan Tobacco Inc.
InventorsManabu YAMADA, Takeshi AKAO, Kazuma MIZUGUCHI, Masayuki TSUJI, Hajime FUJITA
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An aerosol generating apparatus includes a load that generates heat upon receipt of electric power from a power supply and atomizes an aerosol source, an element that is used to acquire a value related to a temperature of the load, a fibrous or porous material that retains the aerosol source supplied from a container to allow the retained aerosol source to be in a feasible state of being heated by the load, and a controller configured to distinguish between a first state of the aerosol generating apparatus in which the aerosol source stored in the container is insufficient in quantity, and a second state in which the container is capable of supplying the aerosol source while the aerosol source retained by the fibrous or porous material is insufficient in quantity, on the basis of a change in the value related to the temperature of the load.
An aerosol generating apparatus, comprising:
A method of actuating an aerosol generating apparatus, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an aerosol generating apparatus, cause the aerosol generating apparatus to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.