This non-combusting flavor inhaler is provided with: a power source unit which comprises at least a battery; a first cartridge which comprises at least a vaporizer unit which, with power provided from an aerosol source and the battery, vaporizes an aerosol source without combustion; a second cartridge which has at least a flavor source and which imparts flavor to the aerosol vaporized by the vaporizer unit by said aerosol passing through said second cartridge; and a control unit which, upon detecting that it is time for the second cartridge to be replaced, controls a notification unit to notify that it is time for the second cartridge to be replaced.

The present invention is directed to a dispensing device for the dispensation of a fluid substance. Aspects of the present invention include dispensing a viscous fluid in a measurable and repeatable manner with a single hand. The dispenser of the present invention can be used for a number of intended purposes including use with viscous fluids such as those associated with cannabis or tobacco consumption.

An aerosol generating article includes a heat source portion including a combustible heat source for generating heat; a heat conduction portion connected to the heat source portion and including an inlet hole through which external air is introduced; a tobacco medium connected to the heat conduction portion and heated by the heat of the heat source transferred through the heat conduction portion, to include an aerosol generating material for generating an aerosol; and a first heat conductor disposed in the tobacco medium and including a heat-conducting material for transferring heat generated by the heat source portion to the tobacco medium.

There is provided a method of making rods having predetermined values of cross-sectional porosity, and a cross-sectional porosity distribution value for use as an aerosol-forming substrate in a heated aerosol-generating article, including providing a continuous sheet of aerosol-forming material having a specified width and a specified thickness; gathering the sheet transversely relative to a longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; severing the rod into a plurality of discrete rods; determining values of cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution for at least one of the discrete rods; and controlling one or more manufacturing parameters to ensure that the cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution values of subsequent rods are within the predetermined values.

Smoking articles are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a smoking article includes a heat source configured to generate heat upon ignition thereof, a first substrate material having an aerosol precursor composition associated therewith and a first end being fixedly engaged with the heat source, and an aerosol delivery component having opposed first and second ends, the first end of the aerosol delivery component being engaged with the second end of the first substrate material. In some aspects, the aerosol delivery component includes a second substrate material having the aerosol precursor composition associated therewith and being disposed about the first end of the aerosol delivery component and a tobacco material disposed between the second substrate material and the mouthpiece, the aerosol precursor composition associated with the first and second substrate materials being configured to produce an aerosol in response to the heat generated by the ignited heat source.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a technique which, while avoiding excessive conduction of heat to the flavor source, reduces variance of heat conduction, and which makes it possible to reduce the weight and the cost of the flavor inhaler. This purpose is met by a flavor inhaler which, provided with a cylindrical holding member which extends along a prescribed direction from a lighting end to a non-lighting end, comprises a combustion-type heat source which is disposed at the lighting end, a flavor source which, in the aforementioned prescribed direction, is arranged towards the non-lighting end with respect to the combustion-type heat source, and a cup-shape cup member which holds the flavor source and has a side wall and a bottom plate, wherein the cup member is arranged with the bottom plate thereof disposed towards the non-lighting end with respect to the combustion-type heat source, and is inserted into the holding member oriented so as to open towards the lighting end or oriented so as to open towards the non-lighting end, and at least the side wall and the bottom plate configuring the cup member are configured from a material containing pulp, a binder and a metal soap.

There is provided a method of making rods having predetermined values of cross-sectional porosity, and a cross-sectional porosity distribution value for use as an aerosol-forming substrate in a heated aerosol-generating article, including providing a continuous sheet of aerosol-forming material having a specified width and a specified thickness; gathering the sheet transversely relative to a longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; severing the rod into a plurality of discrete rods; determining values of cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution for at least one of the discrete rods; and controlling one or more manufacturing parameters to ensure that the cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution values of subsequent rods are within the predetermined values.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose an atomizer of electronic cigarette, comprising an ultrasonic atomization piece, wherein one surface of the ultrasonic atomization piece is in contact with a tobacco tar storage piece; the tobacco tar storage piece communicates with a tobacco tar cavity; the tobacco tar storage piece communicates with an airflow passage; and the tobacco tar storage piece and the ultrasonic atomization piece are sequentially provided along a smoke outflow direction.

The present invention is directed to a dispensing device for the dispensation of a fluid substance. Aspects of the present invention include dispensing a viscous fluid in a measurable and repeatable manner with a single hand. The dispenser of the present invention can be used for a number of intended purposes including use with viscous fluids such as those associated with cannabis or tobacco consumption.

Embodiments of the invention disclose a combined ultrasonic atomizer, an atomization method thereof and electronic cigarette. The combined ultrasonic atomizer comprises a tobacco tar bin, an air inlet passage, a tobacco tar smoke outlet passage and an atomization component; the atomization component comprises a micropore atomization piece used for performing first-stage oscillation atomization on tobacco tar and a high-frequency atomization piece used for performing second-stage oscillation atomization on the tobacco tar; the micropore atomization piece is communicated with a tobacco tar outlet of the tobacco tar bin by direct contact or through a tobacco tar guide structure, and an ejection end of the micropore atomization piece is aligned to an atomization surface of the high-frequency atomization piece; and the air inlet passage communicates with an atomization cavity located between the micropore atomization piece and the high-frequency atomization piece, and the atomization cavity communicates with the tobacco tar smoke outlet passage.