515 patents
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Utility
Aerosol-generating device comprising a heat exchanger
12 Jul 22
An aerosol-generating device for use in an aerosol-generating system is provided, the aerosol-generating device including a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-generating article; a heat exchanger having a first portion proximate to the cavity and a second portion distal to the cavity for capturing heat from a lighter; and a retractable cover, wherein the retractable cover is movable from a first position in which the retractable cover covers the second portion of the heat-exchanger to a second position in which the second portion of the heat exchanger is exposed for heating by a lighter and wherein the retractable cover is configured to automatically return from the second position to the first position when the second portion of the heat exchanger reaches a threshold temperature.
Evan Jochnowitz, Nicholas Martin Broadbent, Christopher James Rowe, Michael Cane
Filed: 15 Dec 14
Utility
Cartridge for an aerosol-generating system
12 Jul 22
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the cartridge including: a liquid storage portion including a housing with a first opening, to contain a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; and a heater assembly including an electrically insulating support having a second opening, an electrical heating element supported by the insulating support and to heat the substrate to form an aerosol, and first and second electrically conductive contact portions disposed at opposite sides of the second opening and to connect to electrical connectors of a battery to supply power to the heater assembly, and a capillary material having first and second faces, the first face being in physical contact with the heating element and the second face being opposite the first face, the capillary material to convey the substrate to the heating element by capillary action, the heater assembly being connected to the housing of the liquid storage portion.
Oleg Mironov, Jean-Marc Widmer
Filed: 8 Sep 21
Utility
Aerosol-generating device with susceptor layer
12 Jul 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a housing defining a chamber configured to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-generating article; an inductor coil disposed around at least a portion of the chamber; an elongate susceptor element projecting into the chamber; and a power supply and a controller connected to the inductor coil and configured to provide an alternating electric current to the inductor coil such that the inductor coil generates an alternating magnetic field to heat the elongate susceptor element and thereby heat at least a portion of an aerosol-generating article received in the chamber, the elongate susceptor element including an elongate support body and at least one heating portion formed from a susceptor layer on an outer surface of the elongate support body, and the elongate support body being formed from a thermally insulative material and the susceptor layer including one or more susceptor materials.
Rui Nuno Batista, Oleg Mironov, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Oleg Fursa, Tony Reevell
Filed: 25 Jul 18
Utility
Adaptable aerosol-generating system
5 Jul 22
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including a cartridge and an aerosol-generating device; the cartridge including a cartridge body defining a substrate compartment and a heater cavity, and an aerosol-forming substrate positioned within the substrate compartment; the aerosol-generating device including a housing defining a device cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge body, and an elongate electric heater disposed in the device cavity; and a thermally conductive sheath secured over the elongate electric heater such that the electric heater is substantially enclosed within the thermally conductive sheath along at least part of a length thereof; in which the thermally conductive sheath and the electric heater are configured to extend into the heater cavity of the cartridge when the cartridge is received in the device cavity such that the substrate compartment of the cartridge is heated by the electric heater via the thermally conductive sheath.
Miguel Marques Borges, Marie Farine, Dani Ruscio, Ali Murat Saygili
Filed: 8 Jun 18
Utility
Aerosol-generating device having an inductor coil with reduced separation
5 Jul 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing defining a chamber configured to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-generating article; an inductor coil disposed at least partially within the chamber, the housing defining a recess in an inner surface of the chamber, and the inductor coil being at least partially disposed within the recess; and a power supply and a controller connected to the inductor coil and configured to provide an alternating electric current to the inductor coil such that the inductor coil generates an alternating magnetic field to inductively heat a susceptor element and thereby heat at least a portion of the aerosol-generating article received within the inductor coil.
Oleg Fursa, Oleg Mironov, Tony Reevell, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik
Filed: 9 Aug 18
Utility
Aerosol-generating device having an elastic susceptor
5 Jul 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a chamber; an inductor coil disposed around at least a portion of the chamber; an elastic susceptor element disposed within the chamber and having a tubular shape configured to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-generating article within the elastic susceptor element; and a power supply and a controller connected to the inductor coil and configured to provide an alternating electric current to the inductor coil such that the inductor coil generates an alternating magnetic field to inductively heat the elastic susceptor element and thereby heat at least a portion of the aerosol-generating article received within the elastic susceptor element.
Rui Nuno Batista
Filed: 9 Aug 18
Utility
Blister capsule, and container, for an aerosol-generating system
21 Jun 22
A blister capsule for an aerosol-generating system, and a container including blister capsules, are provided, the blister capsule including a blister shell; a tubular porous element disposed in the blister shell; a volatile liquid sorbed on the tubular porous element; and a film configured to seal the blister shell, the film and the blister shell being frangible, and the container including at least two of the blister capsules coupled together by a hollow tubular canister configured as a mixing chamber for the volatile liquids contained in each of the blister capsules.
Frederic Ulysse Buehler, Rui Nuno Batista
Filed: 8 Aug 16
Utility
Machine for the production of a component for an aerosol generating article
21 Jun 22
The present invention relates to a machine for the production of a component for an aerosol generating article, the machine including: —a buffer station, the buffer station including: # fixed sheet guides; # movable sheet guides which are movable in a reciprocating manner in a direction towards the fixed sheet guides and in a direction away from the sheet fixed guides; # an actuator for moving the movable sheet guides, wherein the fixed and movable sheet guides together define a zig-zag trajectory for the sheet having a variable length for varying the total length of the sheet of material in the buffer station; # supports for the sheet, the supports being arranged so that, when the movable sheet guides are moved towards the fixed sheet guides, at least one of the movable sheets guides is interposed between two different supports of the plurality; # an air system; # wherein the each of the supports defines an outer surface, at least one of the outer surfaces having a first portion in which a sucking action is exerted by the air system to attract the sheet towards the outer surface and a second portion in which a blowing action is exerted by the air system to push the sheet away from the outer surface.
Alberto Monzoni, Stefano Malossi
Filed: 18 May 18
Utility
Method and apparatus for intermediately storing double-length semi-finished products
21 Jun 22
The method for intermediately storing double-length substantially cylindrical semi-finished products comprises the step of providing a tipping apparatus and forming double-length substantially cylindrical semi-finished products in the tipping apparatus.
Christopher John Grant, Pierre-Yves Gindrat
Filed: 31 Mar 20
Utility
Aerosol-generating device with removable susceptor
21 Jun 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing defining a chamber configured to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-generating article; an inductor coil disposed around at least a portion of the chamber; an elongate susceptor element configured for removable attachment to the housing within the chamber and projecting into the chamber when the element is removably attached to the housing; an aperture positioned on a side of the housing, the aperture and the element being configured for insertion of the element into the chamber through the aperture and configured for removal of the element from the chamber through the aperture; and a power supply and a controller connected to the coil and to provide an alternating electric current to the coil such that the coil generates an alternating magnetic field to heat the element and thereby heat at least a portion of the article received within the chamber.
Jerome Christian Courbat, Oleg Fursa, Oleg Mironov, Tony Reevell, Andreas Michael Rossoll, Enrico Stura
Filed: 9 Aug 18
Utility
Method for providing an aerosol-generating device, aerosol-generating device and flat aerosol-generating article for use in such a device
21 Jun 22
The method for providing an aerosol-generating device for use with a shape-transformable aerosol-forming substrate comprises providing an aerosol-generating device comprising a device housing comprising a moulding cavity.
Tony Reevell
Filed: 24 May 17
Utility
Aerosol-generating device and method for using a sheet of aerosol-forming substrate in an aerosol-generating device
21 Jun 22
The aerosol-generating device comprises a device housing (2), a mouthpiece (3) associated to the device housing, a receiving chamber (4) configured to receive from external to the device at least a portion of a sheet of aerosol-forming substrate in a non-rolled form and configured to accommodate a cylindrically shaped of aerosol-forming substrate and a holder (6) for holding the sheet of aerosol-forming substrate.
Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Alexandre Malgat, Stephane Antony Hedarchet, Noori Moyad Brifcani, Lucio Maria Rondinara
Filed: 20 Feb 18
Utility
Rupturing system for an aerosol-generating system
14 Jun 22
A rupturing system for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the rupturing system including a first tube and a second tube being movable relative to each other along a first motion path from a first position to a second position, such that the defined volume is larger in the first position than in the second position; a rupturing member connected to one of the first tube and the second tube, the rupturing member being arranged such that in the first position the rupturing member is contained completely in the defined volume of the first tube and the second tube, and in the second position the rupturing member at least partially protrudes from the defined volume and is configured to rupture a container; and a first wrapper overlying at least a portion of the first tube and being attached to the first tube.
Frederic Ulysse Buehler, Rui Nuno Batista
Filed: 8 Aug 16
Utility
Container with improved reclosable cover member
14 Jun 22
A container (10) for consumer goods comprising: an outer housing (12) comprising a box (14) and a lid (16), the lid (16) being hinged to the box (14) along a hinge line extending across a back wall of the outer housing (12); and a package (18) of consumer goods within the box (14).
Timothee Cailleaux, Marion Birgit Simone Kamphoff, Peter Nimpsch
Filed: 13 Nov 17
Utility
Method and apparatus for manufacturing a crimped sheet of material
7 Jun 22
The present invention relates to an apparatus (100) for crimping a sheet of material (6), the apparatus comprising: a first (9) and a second (10) facing crimping rollers defining a first (1) and a second (22) rotational axis, respectively, the first and second axis being parallel to each other, wherein at least one of the first and second crimping roller includes a plurality of corrugations; an angle changing device, the angle changing device being adapted to change a crimping angle (11) formed between a fixed reference plane (12) and a movable plane (13) containing the first and the second rotational axis.
Stefano Zappoli, Pietro Davide La Porta, Alberto Monzoni, Stefano Malossi, Antonella Giannini
Filed: 20 Apr 18
Utility
Aerosol-generating article comprising an aerosol-cooling element
7 Jun 22
An aerosol-cooling element (100) for an aerosol-generating article.
Miguel Lereno Santos Vale
Filed: 23 Jan 19
Utility
Aerosol generating system with multiple inductor coils
7 Jun 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing having a chamber configured to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-forming article; a first coil disposed at least partially around, or adjacent to, the chamber; and a second coil disposed at least partially around, or adjacent to, the chamber, the first coil being part of a first resonant circuit having a first resonant frequency and the second coil forming part of a second resonant circuit having a second resonant frequency.
Oleg Mironov, Jerome Christian Courbat, Tony Reevell, Enrico Stura
Filed: 31 Mar 20
Utility
Method of providing oral care benefits
7 Jun 22
Provided are methods of providing at least one oral care benefit by introducing a tablet into the oral cavity to generate a fluid and forcing at least a portion of fluid generated around the oral cavity, for example, by swishing, rinsing, washing, etc., to provide an oral care benefit.
Anthony R. Geonnotti, Patricia L. Golas, Helle Wittorff, Heidi Ziegler Bruun, Dorthe Shackinger Boesen
Filed: 13 Oct 17
Utility
Oral delivery vehicle containing flavoring agents
7 Jun 22
The invention relates an oral delivery vehicle tablet containing nicotine, the delivery vehicle tablet being formed by compression of a plurality of particles, the oral delivery vehicle tablet comprising nicotine, the oral delivery vehicle tablet comprising sugar alcohol(s) in an amount of 40 to 100% by weight of the delivery vehicle tablet, wherein at least 10% by weight of the delivery vehicle tablet comprises a plurality of particles consisting of erythritol and wherein the delivery vehicle tablet comprises a plurality of further sugar alcohol particles in an amount of at least 10% by weight of the delivery vehicle tablet, wherein said further sugar alcohol particles comprise at least one sugar alcohol and wherein said further sugar alcohols particles have a composition which is different from said particles consisting of erythritol.
Helle Wittorff, Heidi Ziegler Bruun, Dorthe Schackinger Boesen
Filed: 13 Nov 19
Utility
Smoking article with combined ventilation and filtration efficiency adjustment
24 May 22
The invention relates to a smoking article (10) comprising a tobacco rod (12) and a filter, the filter comprising a filter unit (14) comprising a first segment (16) of filtration material; a second segment comprising a tubular element (18) of filtration material upstream of the first segment (16), the tubular element (18) having an outer diameter (D2) and an inner diameter (D1).
Loi Mark C. Figueroa, Jerome Uthurry
Filed: 27 Jun 17