515 patents
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Utility
Aerosol-generating system having an outer housing
24 May 22
There is provided an aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating device and a cartridge assembly, the device including a device inner housing defining a device cavity, an electrical heater, and a device outer housing; and the cartridge assembly including a cartridge assembly inner housing defining a substrate compartment, an aerosol-forming substrate positioned within the substrate compartment, and a cartridge assembly outer housing, and a portion of the cartridge assembly inner housing is configured to be received within the device cavity, and, when the portion of the cartridge assembly inner housing is received within the device cavity, at least a first part of a downstream edge of the device outer housing abuts at least a first part of an upstream edge of the cartridge assembly outer housing so that the cartridge assembly outer housing and the device outer housing form a system outer housing.
Ali Murat Saygili
Filed: 29 Nov 17
Utility
Aerosol-generating article having multiple fuses
24 May 22
There is provided an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate and a plurality of electrical fuses.
Tony Reevell
Filed: 8 Mar 17
Utility
Aerosol-generating system with case
24 May 22
An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device and a case configured to receive the aerosol-generating device.
Roland Antonopoulos, Jean-Luc Fringeli
Filed: 2 May 18
Utility
Nicotine powder delivery system
24 May 22
A nicotine powder delivery system includes an inhaler article and a nicotine powder capsule disposed within the inhaler article.
Gerard Zuber
Filed: 8 Dec 16
Utility
Aerosol-generating article comprising a thermal indicator
17 May 22
An aerosol generating article is provided, including a combustible carbonaceous heat source; an aerosol-forming substrate; and a thermal indicator provided on an outer surface of the aerosol-generating article downstream of the combustible carbonaceous heat source.
Frederic Lavanchy
Filed: 29 Dec 16
Utility
Shisha device with air preheat without combustion
17 May 22
A shisha device article includes a vessel and an aerosol-generating element.
Felix Fernando, Michael Paton, David Cross, Eva Saade Latorre, Terence John Wilby
Filed: 26 Jun 18
Utility
Aerosol generating article having cavity with particulate aerosol altering material
10 May 22
An aerosol generating article (10) comprises an aerosol generating substrate (12); a mouthpiece (14) comprising an element (20) defining a cavity having a longitudinal axis; and a particulate aerosol altering material (30) partially filling the cavity.
Clement Besso, Alen Kadiric
Filed: 11 Oct 18
Utility
Aerosol-generating device with an induction heater with a conical induction coil
10 May 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing having a chamber configured to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-generating article, the chamber including at least one solid elongate heating element extending into the chamber in a longitudinal direction of the chamber and being configured to penetrate an aerosol-generating article received in the chamber, the heating element having a conical shape and being tapered at a free end thereof; an induction coil disposed around at least a portion of the chamber and having a conical shape; and a power supply and a controller connected to the induction coil and being configured to provide an alternating electric current to the induction coil such that the inductor coil generates a fluctuating magnetic field for heating the heating element disposed in the chamber.
Rui Nuno Batista, Tony Reevell
Filed: 6 Aug 18
Utility
Aerosol generating system with non-circular inductor coil
10 May 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a housing having 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; a plurality of elongate susceptor elements projecting into the chamber and spaced apart from each other, the susceptor elements each extending substantially parallel to a magnetic axis of the inductor coil; 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 susceptor elements and thereby heat at least a portion of the article received in the chamber, the inductor coil being helical and having a non-circular cross-sectional shape.
Jerome Christian Courbat, Oleg Mironov, Tony Reevell, Enrico Stura
Filed: 8 Aug 18
Utility
Vapor insert for holding a vapor source
10 May 22
The present invention provides devices for holding one or more vapor sources in a media inhaler.
Alex Stenzler, Steve Han, James Tibbatts, Steven Ellis
Filed: 8 Aug 18
Utility
Aerosol-forming substrate and aerosol-delivery system
3 May 22
There is described an aerosol-forming substrate for use in combination with an inductive heating device.
Oleg Mironov, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik
Filed: 21 May 15
Utility
Visual user interface for aerosol-generating devices
3 May 22
A user interface, such as a visual user interface, is configured to display a static or motion image around an aerosol-generating device (10).
Michel Bessant
Filed: 25 Sep 18
Utility
Aerosol-generating system comprising a fluid permeable susceptor element
26 Apr 22
An electrically heated aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device and a cartridge configured to be removably coupled with the device, the device including a device housing comprising a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge when the device housing is engaged with the device housing, an inductor coil disposed around or adjacent to the cavity, and a power supply connected to the inductor coil and configured to provide a high frequency oscillating current to the inductor coil; and the cartridge including a cartridge housing configured to engage the device housing and containing an aerosol-forming substrate, the cartridge housing having an external surface surrounding the aerosol-forming substrate, at least a portion of the external surface being formed by a fluid permeable susceptor element configured to allow the aerosol-forming substrate, in liquid phase, to permeate therethrough.
Oleg Mironov, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Michel Thorens
Filed: 6 Oct 20
Utility
Nicotine delivery product, related uses and oral dosage forms, and methods of production
26 Apr 22
The present invention relates to a nicotine delivery product comprising, or even consisting essentially of, a population of nicotine-loaded cation exchange resin particles, said population comprises at least 50% (w/w) particles having a size in the range of 90-300 micron which provides an improved nicotine stability to oral dosage forms comprising the nicotine delivery product.
Jesper Thorsen, Bjarne Vestbö, Birgitte Kringelum Breindal, Jesper Neergaard
Filed: 21 Apr 16
Utility
Casting apparatus and method to check a thickness of a cast sheet
26 Apr 22
The invention relates to a casting apparatus (1) for the production of a cast sheet (10) of homogenized tobacco material, said casting system comprising: ⋅a casting box (4) adapted to contain a slurry of the homogenized tobacco material; ⋅a movable support (7); ⋅a casting system adapted to deposit the slurry contained in the casting box (4) onto the movable support (7) so as to form the cast sheet (10); ⋅a sensor (30) to detect a thickness of the cast sheet (10); ⋅wherein the sensor (30) includes a slider (33) comprising a planar surface (36) adapted to be in contact to a top surface of the cast sheet and a height detector (38) adapted to measure the height of the planar surface (36) so as to derive the thickness of the cast sheet (10).
Michel Borloz, Yann Richard
Filed: 13 Apr 17
Utility
Method for providing an aerosol-generating device, aerosol-generating device and flat aerosol-generating article for use in such a device
19 Apr 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.
Robert William Emmett, Tony Reevell
Filed: 24 May 17
Utility
Method for producing a homogenized tobacco material, and homogenized tobacco material
19 Apr 22
Yorick Klipfel, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Michael Elliot Doyle, Juan David Manzur Bedoya, Pascal Rausis
Filed: 4 Sep 19
Utility
Method and apparatus to fold a sheet of material into a rod for an aerosol generating article
19 Apr 22
The present invention relates to a method to fold a sheet (11) of material into a rod for an aerosol generating article, the method comprising: providing a central element and plurality of spaced apart walls (14), the spaced apart walls radially extending outwardly from the central element (12) following one another in a circumferential direction, each spaced apart wall defining an end surface (15) separated from the end surfaces of the adjacent walls; transporting the sheet of material and putting it in contact with the end surfaces of the plurality of spaced apart walls so that the sheet of material can partly fold within spaces defined between the spaced apart walls; and inserting the sheet of material into a funnel (16) to form a rod.
Jonas Conrady, Rainer Dangers, Peter Reuschel, Frank Syrzisko
Filed: 18 May 18
Utility
Smoking article comprising a filter with enhanced flavourant release
5 Apr 22
There is provided a smoking article (10) comprising a tobacco rod (12) and a filter (14) axially aligned in an abutting end-to-end relationship.
Jerome Uhthurry
Filed: 29 Nov 16
Utility
Aerosol generating article having water dispersible filter component
5 Apr 22
An aerosol generating article (10) comprises: an aerosol generating substrate (12); a filter (14) in axial alignment with the aerosol generating substrate, the filter (14) comprising at least one water dispersible filter component (16), wherein the filter component is water dispersible under the test conditions of EN 14987:2006; and a tipping wrapper (20) wrapped around the filter (14) and at least a portion of the aerosol generating substrate (12).
Alen Kadiric, Stefanos Papakyrillou
Filed: 21 Dec 17