Patent ID: 8646462

Claim:
A non-heating flavor inhaler, comprising: a hollow suction holder having a longitudinal axis, a front end and a rear end serving as a mouth end, and defining an air passage therein for allowing ambient air taken in at a front end side to flow to the mouth end; and a flavor releasing source arranged in said suction holder, said flavor releasing source being air-permeable and capable of releasing flavoring substances in the air passage without being ignited, wherein said flavor releasing source splits the air passage into two regions along the longitudinal axis with respect to a direction of said suction holder, one of the two regions forms a front end-side upstream section extending from the front end toward the mouth end of said suction holder, the other of the two regions forms a mouth end-side downstream section, the mouth end-side downstream section including a front passage extending from the front end toward the mouth end of said suction holder along the front end-side upstream section and a rear passage extending from the front passage to the mouth end, the front passage and the front end-side upstream section being located at both sides of the longitudinal axis, and an exposing area of said flavor releasing source is greater than a cross-section of said suction holder delimited by an inner circumference thereof.