A clothing management apparatus includes a cabinet, a drum an induction heater that includes a housing accommodating a coil, a first duct provided outside the drum and having an inlet communicating with an inner space of the drum, a chamber provided outside the drum and including a first inlet communicating with the first duct, a first outlet communicating with the inner space, a first flow path connecting the first inlet and the first outlet, a second inlet communicating with an outer space of the drum, a second outlet communicating with the housing, and a second flow path connecting the second inlet and the second outlet, a partition wall provided in the chamber and dividing the first flow path and the second flow path, a first impeller in a flow path communicating with the first flow path, and a second impeller in a flow path communicating with the second flow path.

A control unit for an inductive heating apparatus configured to inductively heat a susceptor of an aerosol forming body includes the susceptor and an aerosol source, the control unit is configured to in a case where the susceptor ceases to be detected while the inductive heating is being executed, stop the inductive heating or notifying an error.

Provided herein are an induction heating-type aerosol-generating article and device with improved heating efficiency. The induction heating-type aerosol-generating article according to some embodiments of the present disclosure includes a medium portion which includes an aerosol-forming substrate, a susceptor element which forms a closed loop to wrap around at least a portion of the medium portion and which is configured to, due to induction heating being performed therein, heat at least a portion of the medium portion, and an outer wrapper which wraps around at least a portion of the susceptor element. In this case, since the susceptor element is embedded in the aerosol-generating article and directly transmits heat to the medium portion, and an induced current may smoothly flow through the formed closed loop, heating efficiency may be significantly improved.

Disclosed is an article for use with an apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The article includes a carrier having plural thermally-conductive portions, on which are locatable respective discrete quantities of smokable material. Between the portions of the carrier, the carrier is shaped to form a thermal barrier for inhibiting heat conduction from one or more of the portions of the carrier towards another of the portions of the carrier in use.

An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a cavity to receive an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate; and an induction heating arrangement including a susceptor arrangement and an induction coil, the induction coil being arranged at least partly surrounding the susceptor arrangement, and the induction coil being arranged axially movable along the susceptor arrangement, and a guiding element to guide the axial movement of the induction coil, the induction coil being movable to at least a first heating position and a second heating position around the cavity, the susceptor arrangement including at least a first susceptor and a second susceptor, which are arranged distanced from each other along a longitudinal axis of the aerosol-generating device, and the induction coil being movable to surround the first susceptor corresponding to the first heating position and movable to surround the second susceptor corresponding to the second heating position.

An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate; a first air inlet fluidly connected with the cavity and configured to enable ambient air to be drawn into the cavity; and a second air inlet fluidly connected with the cavity and configured to enable ambient air to be drawn into the cavity, the first air inlet being further configured to be fluidly connected with a central portion of the cavity, and the second air inlet being further configured to be fluidly connected with a peripheral portion of the cavity.

An apparatus for manufacturing an aerosol-generating rod (10), comprising an inserter (260) for guiding a continuous band of susceptor (40), the inserter comprising: an entrance-aperture; an exit-aperture; a channel between the entrance-aperture and the exit-aperture; and a rotating mechanism to rotate the exit-aperture around the longitudinal axis of the channel; a gathering mechanism to gather a continuous sheet of aerosol-generating material (20, 120) and the continuous band of susceptor from the inserter; and a wrapper to wrap the gathered material to form a continuous rod. A method using the apparatus to position a continuous band of a susceptor in an aerosol-generating material. A method of using the apparatus to manufacture an aerosol-generating rod.

A method for trickle impregnation of a stator or armature of an electric machine with a synthetic resin curing under temperature increase comprises heating the stator or the armature from an initial temperature to a trickle temperature range of the synthetic resin; keeping constant the temperature in the trickle temperature range and introducing the synthetic resin into the stator or the armature; heating the stator or the armature to a curing temperature range; keeping constant the temperature of the stator or the armature in the curing temperature range and setting and curing the synthetic resin to a duroplast; and cooling down the stator or the armature. The trickle temperature range has lower temperatures than the curing temperature range. The method includes inductively heating the stator or the armature. The stator or the armature may be disposed in an impregnation device.

A device and method for converting a consumable into an aerosol with high heat without burning the consumable by packaging the consumable containing an internal susceptor inside a housing. A first end of the housing can be capped with an end cap and a second end of the housing can have a mouthpiece. The housing containing the consumable and the susceptor can be placed inside a case with an inductive heating element configured to heat the susceptor. Heating the susceptor results in the consumable being released as an aerosol for inhalation.

An inductive heating device (1) for heating an aerosol-forming substrate (20) comprising a susceptor (21) comprises: a device housing (10) a DC power source (11) for providing a DC supply voltage (V.sub.DC) and a DC current (I.sub.DC) a power supply electronics (13) comprising a DC/AC converter (132), the DC/AC converter (132) comprising an LC load network (1323) comprising a series connection of a capacitor (C2) and an inductor (L2) having an ohmic resistance (R.sub.Coil), a cavity (14) in the device housing (10) for accommodating a portion of the aerosol-forming substrate (20) to inductively couple the inductor (L2) of the LC load network (1323) to the susceptor (21). The power supply electronics (13) further comprises a microcontroller (131) to determine from the DC supply voltage (V.sub.DC) and the DC current (I.sub.DC) an apparent ohmic resistance (R.sub.a), and from the apparent ohmic resistance (R.sub.a) the temperature (T) of the susceptor (21).