Patent ID: 11918052
Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A  H | IPC A  H

Claim 12:
13. A method of operating an aerosol-generating apparatus for inductively heating a susceptor of an aerosol-forming body that includes the susceptor and an aerosol source, the aerosol-generating apparatus comprising a housing into which the aerosol-forming body can be inserted, wherein the housing includes a power supply; an alternating current generation circuit for generating an alternating current from a power supplied from the power supply; and an inductive heating circuit for inductively heating the susceptor, and the method comprises:
detecting a voltage and a current of a circuit including the inductive heating circuit to which the alternating current generated by the alternating current generation circuit is supplied, and
in a case where, based on an impedance obtained from the detected voltage and the current, the susceptor is determined to not be within the housing of the aerosol-generating apparatus while executing the inductive heating by supplying the alternating current to the inductive heating circuit, stopping the supply of the alternating current for executing the inductive heating.