US 12,390,606 B2
Inhalation component generating device, control circuit, and control method and control program of inhalation component generating device
Takeshi Akao, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to JAPAN TOBACCO INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by JAPAN TOBACCO INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/105,929.
Application 17/105,929 is a continuation of application No. 16/592,439, filed on Oct. 3, 2019, granted, now 10,869,974.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-189511 (JP), filed on Oct. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0077757 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 15/06 (2006.01); A24F 40/60 (2020.01); A24B 15/167 (2020.01)
CPC A61M 15/06 (2013.01) [A24F 40/60 (2020.01); A24B 15/167 (2016.11); A61M 2205/3334 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3368 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3653 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01); A61M 2205/8206 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An inhalation component generating device comprising:
a power supply;
a load configured to evaporate or atomize an inhalation component source by power from the power supply; and
a controller configured to control the power supply based on an output of a temperature sensor, wherein
the controller is configured to
perform deterioration diagnosis on the power supply in a case where power supply temperature is in a first temperature range in response to detection of a generation request of the inhalation component generating device; and
perform quick charging at a rate that is two or more times that for charging of the power supply in a case where the power supply temperature is in a second temperature range that is wider than the first temperature range and that includes the first temperature range,
wherein an upper limit temperature of the first temperature range is the same as an upper limit temperature of the second temperature range, and
in response to deterioration of the power supply being detected, stop charging or stop discharging the power supply.