A deicing system may include one or more walkway cassettes, a temperature control element, and a control unit. Each walkway cassette may include a casing and a heat tracing; cable in good thermal contact with the casing. The temperature control element may include a comparatively smaller casing and a heat tracing cable in good thermal contact with the casing, and may exhibit similar heat loss characteristics to the walkway cassettes. The temperature control element may include a temperature sensor on a top surface of its casing, which may generate temperature data and send the temperature data to the control unit. The control unit may provide power to the temperature control element and the walkway cassette(s) in parallel based on the temperature data. The temperature control element may be placed in proximity to the walkway cassette(s), and may be exposed to substantially the same environmental conditions as the walkway cassettes.

An aerosol generating device may include a housing forming an exterior of the aerosol generating device; a heater configured to heat an aerosol generating article inserted through a first surface of the housing; a battery electrically connected to the heater; a weather information sensor exposed through a second surface of the housing and configured to measure weather information surrounding the housing; and a controller configured to adjust power supplied from the battery to the heater, wherein the controller is further configured to control an amount of the power supplied from the battery to the heater such that the heater is heated according to at least one from among a target temperature of a pre-heating section and a target temperature of a smoking section that is determined.

The present invention relates to an anti-fog device including: a lens unit including a first lens positioned outside and a second lens spaced apart from the first lens while facing the first lens to form an internal space and having a liquid filled in the internal space; a temperature control unit controlling a temperature of the liquid; and a circulation unit of which one side is connected to the internal space and the other side is connected to the temperature control unit to form a passage through which the liquid circulates. According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent record deterioration of a sports event or an accident during exercise by preventing occurrence of fog of goggles or swimming goggles to secure a visual field.

An aerosol-generating device includes a heater configured to heat an aerosol-generating material, a puff detection sensor configured to detect puffs of a user, a battery configured to supply power to the heater, and a controller configured to: based on a new puff being detected by the puff detection sensor, count a number of accumulated puffs including the new puff, determine a puff section corresponding to the number of accumulated puffs from among a plurality of puff sections which are divided according to the number of accumulated puffs, and control the power supplied to the heater based on a power range preset for the determined puff section.

A system and method of heating a tool with electromagnetic radiation aims to harness the dialectic heating effect of radio waves on metallic nanoparticles to generate controllable, user-safe, highly variable heat with the use of a specific supporting structure. It is considered that the method may be applied to a variety of existing assemblies, such as a knife, a cooking pot, a jacket, and other embodiments. The system of the present invention provides at least one tool body, at least one suspension mechanism, and a plurality of photothermal particles. Furthermore, at least one portable electromagnetic (EM) wave generator is provided, wherein the portable EM wave generator either is integrated into the tool body, or is positioned adjacent to the tool body, wherein the portable EM wave generator includes a manual on/off switch. The overall process allows for controlled generation of heat within a variety of physical objects.

An axially rotating electric heating device for extracting tobacco includes a heating cavity outer shell, a heating cavity inner shell, and a heating assembly. The heating assembly includes a heating cavity that accommodates a smoking product and a heating element located in a cigarette heating cavity. The heating cavity is surrounded by the heating cavity inner shell; the heating element is inserted into the smoking product so as to heat the smoking product. The heating cavity inner shell is located at the front end of the heating assembly; the heating cavity outer shell and the heating cavity inner shell form an integral body; the heating cavity may rotate relative to the axis of the heating element to separate the smoking product from the heating element, thereby facilitating the extraction of the smoking product after smoking is finished.

A heating oven for use with a heat-not-burn portable heating device for the delivery of vaporized natural consumables, and methods of operating the oven are disclosed. The oven heats a flower stick filled with natural consumables to vaporize volatile compounds for the inhalation and enjoyment of the user. The oven operates by both conduction and convection via knitted wire filters that have high surface area and thermal mass to enable rapid heat transfer and stabilization of temperatures. The oven operates according to one or more temperature profiles for the duration of a heating session.

A heating device, used for heating an aerosol generating substrate to form an aerosol, comprises a heating body, wherein the heating body comprises a base body configured to have a chamber for receiving at least part of the aerosol generating substrate and further comprises an infrared radiation coating formed on the outer surface of the chamber and used for generating infrared rays after a temperature rise and transmitting energy to the aerosol generating substrate in the chamber at least in an infrared radiation manner, so that at least one component in the aerosol generating substrate is volatilized to form an aerosol, wherein the surface roughness of the outer surface of the chamber is greater than the surface roughness of the inner surface of the chamber. A rough surface is formed at an interface between the outer surface of the base body and the infrared electrothermal coating.

A heater system for a non-combustible aerosol-generating device includes a heater element and a fuse element. The heater element has a heating region, a first terminal and a second terminal. The fuse element is electrically connected between the first terminal and the second terminal in parallel with the heater element. The fuse element has a region configured to induce a localized hot spot to cause the fuse element to open circuit in response to power applied between the first terminal and the second terminal.

The invention relates to the adaptation of the functionalities of a remote control in a local area network. More specifically, it relates to the definition of commands to be sent upon an input of a user, depending either of the commands that can be sent in a RF network joined by the remote control, or of the commands that can be received by a device that the remote control is bound to in a RF network.