An aerosol-generating article includes a heating element and a tobacco material. The heating element is wrapped in the tobacco material, or the tobacco material is wrapped in the heating element, or the heating element is disposed in the tobacco material.

Provided herein are an induction heating-type aerosol generation device, which has a function of determining the suitability of an aerosol-generating article, and a control method thereof. The induction heating-type aerosol generation device according to some embodiments of the present disclosure includes a housing which has an accommodation space for accommodating an aerosol-generating article, an inductor disposed to surround at least a portion of the aerosol-generating article accommodated in the accommodation space, and configured to inductively heat the accommodated aerosol-generating article, and a controller which controls the inductor. The controller may apply a predetermined article determining frequency to the inductor, may measure an electrical signal that changes according to the applied article determining frequency, and may determine suitability of the accommodated aerosol-generating article only on the basis of a result of measurement of the electrical signal, without an additional sensor.

A cooking appliance includes a housing that defines a cavity therein, a door connected to the housing and configured to open and close the cavity, a microwave (MW) heating module configured to emit microwaves into the cavity, and an induction heating (IH) module configured to emit a magnetic field towards the cavity. The IH module includes a working coil that is configured to generate the magnetic field and a thin film that is disposed between the cavity and the working coil.

An aerosol generation apparatus includes a heat insulation cylinder including an open end and a closed end is disposed within a housing; the heat insulation cylinder is internally provided with a tubular bracket, a tubular hollow of the bracket forming a cavity, and a smokable material being capable of being received within or removed from the cavity through the open end; a heater, in the shape of a pin or blade extending along the axial direction of the cavity; a first air medium layer, formed between the bracket and the heat insulation cylinder, for reducing heat conduction; and an airflow channel, including a first portion extending from the closed end to the open end within the first air medium layer, and a second portion extending from the open end to the closed end within the cavity.

A method of manufacturing an aerosol generating article includes: providing a tobacco rod including a susceptor having a form in which a plurality of strands are twisted together; providing a filter rod arranged at one end of the tobacco rod; and wrapping the tobacco rod and the filter rod with a wrapper.

An aerosol-generating device is provided for generating an aerosol by inductive heating of an aerosol-forming substrate, the device including: a device housing including a cavity to removably receive the substrate; first and second induction coils arranged and configured to generate an alternating magnetic field within first and second sections of the cavity, respectively; and a control circuit to selectively drive the first and the second coils to selectively generate an alternating magnetic field within the first and the second sections, respectively, the circuit including: a first LC resonator circuit including the first coil and a first capacitor, and a second LC resonator circuit including the second coil and a second capacitor, the first and the second circuits having a first and a second resonance frequency, respectively, and a driving oscillator circuit including a common oscillator coil to selectively generate an alternating magnetic oscillator field. An aerosol-generating system is also provided.

An aerosol-generating article is provided for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating, the article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; a downstream section at a location downstream of the rod and including: a support element located immediately downstream of the rod and being in longitudinal alignment with the rod and including a first hollow tubular segment, and an aerosol cooling element immediately downstream of the support element and in longitudinal alignment with the support element and the rod, the aerosol-cooling element including a second hollow tubular segment; a ventilation zone at a location along the second hollow tubular segment; and an upstream section at a location upstream of the rod and including an upstream element positioned immediately upstream of the rod and having a resistance-to-draw (RTD) of less than 80 millimetres H.sub.2O, in which the article has a ventilation level of at least 10 percent.

An aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating is provided, the aerosol-generating article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; and a downstream section arranged downstream of the rod of aerosol-generating substrate and in axial alignment with the rod of aerosol-generating substrate, the downstream section including one or more downstream elements, the aerosol-generating article being arranged such that a center of mass of the aerosol-generating article is at least 60 percent of the way along a length of the aerosol-generating article from a downstream end.

An aerosol generating device includes an accommodation space in a cylindrical shape for accommodating a cigarette, an induction coil wound along an outer surface of the accommodation space, a power supply for supplying electric power to the induction coil, a controller for controlling electric power supplied to the induction coil, and a shield film including a ferromagnetic material for shielding electromagnetic interference from electromagnetic waves emitted from the induction coil. The shield film surrounds only a portion of an outer surface of the induction coil to shield the electromagnetic interference from the electromagnetic waves having a frequency that does not exceed 500 kHz.

An aerosol generating device, including an inductance channel, includes: a heater configured to generate an aerosol by heating a cigarette; a cigarette insertion space into which the cigarette is inserted; a first inductance channel; a second inductance channel; and a controller configured to generate a control signal by using information received from the first inductance channel and the second inductance channel, wherein the controller measures, when an amount of a change in frequency of current flowing through the first inductance channel exceeds a first reference value due to an object adjacent to the cigarette insertion space, an amount of a change in frequency of current flowing through the second inductance channel and controls, when the measured amount of the change in frequency of the current is less than a second reference value, a power supply to the heater to be started.