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

Claim 17:
18. 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:
the aerosol-forming body; and
a housing into which the aerosol-forming body can be inserted,
wherein the housing comprises
a power supply;
an alternating current generation circuit for generating an alternating current from a power supplied from the power supply;
an inductive heating circuit for inductively heating the susceptor;
a circuit for detecting the presence or absence of the susceptor; and
a controller configured to:
detect 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 the 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, stop the supply of the alternating current for executing the inductive heating.