An exemplary heating assembly includes a liquid conducting and heating body and an inductive coil corresponding to the liquid conducting and heating body. The liquid conducting and heating body includes a micro-porous ceramic main body and a metallic powder evenly distributed in the ceramic main body. The inductive coil is configured for generating high frequency magnetic field in response to an alternating current, so that eddy current and heat are generated in the liquid conducting and heating body. The liquid conducting and heating body is configured for absorbing tobacco liquid and heating the tobacco liquid to form aerosol.

An induction coil assembly includes an annular member extending from a first end to a second end, and extending about a longitudinal axis; a first leg extending from the first end of the annular member, and including a first electrical connection portion and a first axial portion; and a second leg extending from the second end of the annular member, and including a second electrical connection portion and a second axial portion. An internal surface of the annular member defines a first fluid passage through the annular member. An internal surface of the first leg defines a second fluid passage through the first leg. An internal surface of the second leg defines a third fluid passage through the second leg. The second fluid passage is in fluid communication with the third fluid passage via the first fluid passage.

A post-heating treatment device performs a post-heating treatment for a welded section of a rail, after an induction heating coil is automatically disposed at a predetermined position based on the welded section. The device includes welded section detecting unit for detecting the position of a welded section on a rail, a first coil and a second coil that form an induction heating coil, first coil moving unit for moving the first coil to a position spaced apart from the rail at a predetermined distance, second coil moving unit for moving the second coil to a position separated from the rail at a predetermined distance, where the second coil is contacted to the first coil, clamping unit for pressing against the contact portion between the first coil and the second coil, and current applying unit for applying a predetermined current to the formed induction heating coil.

An electrically heated aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device and a cartridge configured to be removably coupled with the device, the device including a device housing comprising a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge when the device housing is engaged with the device housing, an inductor coil disposed around or adjacent to the cavity, and a power supply connected to the inductor coil and configured to provide a high frequency oscillating current to the inductor coil; and the cartridge including a cartridge housing configured to engage the device housing and containing an aerosol-forming substrate, the cartridge housing having an external surface surrounding the aerosol-forming substrate, at least a portion of the external surface being formed by a fluid permeable susceptor element configured to allow the aerosol-forming substrate, in liquid phase, to permeate therethrough.

A cartridge for an electrically heatable aerosol-generating system is provided, the system including an aerosol-generating device, the cartridge configured to be used with the device, the device including a device housing defining a cavity to receive the cartridge, an inductor coil around or adjacent to the cavity, and a power supply connected to the coil and to provide a high-frequency oscillating current; the cartridge including: a cartridge housing to engage the device housing and containing an aerosol-forming substrate, the cartridge housing having an external surface, at least part of which is formed by a fluid permeable susceptor element that is electrically isolated from any other electrically conductive components; a first capillary material in the cartridge housing in contact with the susceptor element; and a second capillary material in the cartridge housing in contact with the first material, the first material having a higher thermal decomposition temperature than the second material.

A first coil 110 and a second coil 120 are faced each other across a conductor plate S so that the first coil (110) and the second coil (120) become substantially the same in position in a Y-axis direction. The conductor plate S is inductively heated by applying alternating currents at a frequency at which a depth of penetration of the current becomes equal to or less than half a plate thickness of the conductor plate S to the first coil (110) and the second coil (120) in opposite directions.

Disclosed is an inductor for electromagnetic induction heating of a plasticizing cylinder, including at least one coil, made of an electric conductor, arranged on an internal support element of thermal insulation towards the cylinder, made of non-magnetic and non-conductive material. The device provides an even number of two or more identical coils, each having an internal terminal and an external terminal, wherein: the winding direction is the same for all coils; the winding axis of the coils is perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder to be heated; the coils are mounted symmetrically to the cylinder axis to be heated and angularly equidistant; and the adjaent external or internal terminals of the coils are connected to each other and the internal or external terminals are electrically powered, so as to generate an electromagnetic field transverse to the cylinder.

An electrically heated aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device and a cartridge configured to be removably coupled with the device, the device including a device housing comprising a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge when the device housing is engaged with the device housing, an inductor coil disposed around or adjacent to the cavity, and a power supply connected to the inductor coil and configured to provide a high frequency oscillating current to the inductor coil; and the cartridge including a cartridge housing configured to engage the device housing and containing an aerosol-forming substrate, the cartridge housing having an external surface surrounding the aerosol-forming substrate, at least a portion of the external surface being formed by a fluid permeable susceptor element configured to allow the aerosol-forming substrate, in liquid phase, to permeate therethrough.

An apparatus and a method for rapidly heating cold-rolled strip steel (10). The apparatus for rapidly heating cold-rolled strip steel (10) comprises a heating zone, a soaking zone, and a cooling zone, and the heating zone is sequentially divided into a first heating section (1), a second heating section (2), a third heating section (3), and a fourth heating section (4) along a moving direction of the strip steel (10) to be heated, the first heating section (1) and the fourth heating section (4) being radiant heating sections, and the second heating section (2) and the third heating section (3) being inductive heating sections. The method for rapidly heating cold-rolled strip steel (10) uses the apparatus for rapidly heating cold-rolled strip steel (10) to heat the strip steel (10).

A transverse flux electric induction heating apparatus is provided with a pair of transverse flux inductor assemblies where the inductor in each one of the pair of assemblies is formed from a pair of continuous flexible cables disposed within movable roll channels in roll assemblies that are used to adjust the transverse length of the inductor across the edge-to-edge transverse of a workpiece moving between the inductor in each one of the pair of assemblies and/or to adjust the pole pitch between transverse inductor lengths of each inductor in the pair of assemblies.