AEROSOL GENERATING DEVICE WITH LUMINOUS STATUS INDICATOR, METHOD OF OPERATION AND MANUFACTURING THEREOF Russian patent published in 2024 - IPC A24F40/60 

FIELD: smoking accessories.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to an aerosol-generating device with a luminous state indicator, a method for operation and manufacture thereof. Aerosol-generating device (100) comprises a luminous status indicator. Housing (102) of aerosol-generating device (100) has window (112), and an array of light sources (146) is provided inside housing (102) for direct illumination from housing (102) through opening (112). Light diffuser (118) is placed between the array of light sources (146) and window (112), and there are walls (150) passing between light sources (146). Combination of light diffuser (118) and walls (150) causes the light directed through window (112) from light sources (146) to look like a light unit which gradually increases in size as the number of luminous adjacent light sources (146) increases.

EFFECT: enabling indication of various information to a user using an array of light sources using a discrete number of light-emitting diodes for one window.

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