Inhalation device and non-transitory computer readable medium

Abstract

An inhalation device including a communication unit that communicates with other devices, a heating unit that heats an aerosol-source-containing base material to generate an aerosol, and a control unit that controls the communication unit such that a plurality of types of information transmitted and received by the communication unit are transmitted and received in the order starting with the highest-priority information.

1 . An inhaler device comprising:
 a communicator that communicates with an other device;   a heater that heats a substrate containing an aerosol source to generate an aerosol; and   a controller that controls the communicator to transmit and receive, in order of priority, a plurality of kinds of information to be transmitted and received by the communicator.   
     
     
         2 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the controller controls the communicator to transmit high-priority information using acquisition thereof as a trigger.   
     
     
         3 . The inhaler device according to  claim 2 , further comprising a power supply that stores and supplies electric power for an operation of the inhaler device, wherein
 the high-priority information includes battery information indicating a state of the power supply.   
     
     
         4 . The inhaler device according to  claim 3 , wherein
 the battery information includes at least either information indicating a remaining amount of the electric power of the power supply or information indicating degradation of the power supply.   
     
     
         5 . The inhaler device according to  claim 2 , wherein
 the high-priority information includes state information indicating a state of the heater.   
     
     
         6 . The inhaler device according to  claim 5 , wherein
 the state information includes information indicating that heating by the heater has started, information indicating that a period during which a sufficient amount of aerosol is assumed to be generated has started, information indicating a timing that is a predetermined time before an end of the period during which a sufficient amount of aerosol is assumed to be generated, or information indicating that the period during which a sufficient amount of aerosol is assumed to be generated has ended.   
     
     
         7 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the controller controls the communicator to transmit and receive low-priority information at a timing not within a time segment from a start to an end of a process of generating the aerosol by using the substrate.   
     
     
         8 . The inhaler device according to  claim 7 , wherein
 the low-priority information includes setting information for setting an operation of the inhaler device.   
     
     
         9 . The inhaler device according to  claim 8 , wherein
 the heater operates based on a heating profile defining a time-series transition of a target resistance value, which is a target value of a resistance value of the heater, and   the setting information includes information indicating the heating profile.   
     
     
         10 . The inhaler device according to  claim 8  wherein
 in a case where a first lock function is valid, the controller permits heating by the heater if an operation corresponding to an operation pattern set for the first lock function is performed, and prohibits heating by the heater unless the operation corresponding to the operation pattern set for the first lock function is detected, and 
 the setting information includes at least either information indicating whether to validate the first lock function or information indicating the operation pattern. 
 
     
     
         11 . The inhaler device according to  claim 8 , wherein
 in a case where a second lock function is valid, the controller permits heating by the heater if the communicator is communicating with the other device, and prohibits heating by the heater unless the communicator is communicating with the other device, and   the setting information includes information indicating whether to validate the second lock function.   
     
     
         12 . The inhaler device according to  claim 8 , wherein
 the setting information includes information indicating whether to permit communication by the communicator.   
     
     
         13 . The inhaler device according to  claim 8 , wherein
 the controller controls the heater to stop heating if a number of times of inhalation performed by a user after a start of heating of the substrate reaches a predetermined upper limit value, and   the setting information includes information indicating the predetermined upper limit value.   
     
     
         14 . The inhaler device according to  claim 7 , further comprising
 a memory that stores information, wherein   the low-priority information includes log information acquired in accordance with use of the inhaler device by a user and stored in the memory.   
     
     
         15 . The inhaler device according to  claim 14 , further comprising
 a power supply that stores and supplies electric power for an operation of the inhaler device, wherein   the heater operates based on a heating profile defining a time-series transition of a target resistance value, which is a target value of a resistance value of the heater, and   the log information includes at least any of information acquired during the time segment from the start to the end of the process of generating the aerosol by using the substrate, information indicating an operation history of the inhaler device, information indicating a remaining amount of the electric power of the power supply, or information acquired during charging of the power supply.   
     
     
         16 . The inhaler device according to  claim 1 , further comprising
 a power supply that stores and supplies electric power for an operation of the inhaler device, wherein   the plurality of kinds of information to be transmitted and received by the communicator include battery information, state information, setting information, and log information, and   among the battery information, the state information, the setting information, and the log information, the battery information has a highest priority, the state information has a second highest priority, the setting information has a third highest priority, and the log information has a lowest priority.   
     
     
         17 . The inhaler device according to  claim 16 , wherein
 after performing a process of transmitting the battery information, the controller controls the heater to perform heating.   
     
     
         18 . The inhaler device according to  claim 16 , wherein
 after the heater has performed heating, the controller performs control to perform a process of transmitting the log information.   
     
     
         19 . The inhaler device according to  claim 16 , wherein
 before performing a process of transmitting the log information, the controller performs control to perform a process of performing setting based on the setting information.   
     
     
         20 . A non-transitory computer readable medium having a program stored therein, the program for causing a computer to, the computer controlling an inhaler device including a communicator that communicates with an other device and a heater that heats a substrate containing an aerosol source to generate an aerosol:
 control the communicator to transmit and receive, in order of priority, a plurality of kinds of information to be transmitted and received by the communicator.