515 patents
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Utility
Child resistant container
28 Feb 23
A container is provided, including a tubular body having an open first end and a second end defining a receptacle to receive an elongate storage unit; and a retaining frame within the receptacle to receive and retain the unit, movable between a first configuration to engage a retaining surface of the unit to retain it within the receptacle, and a second configuration in which it is released from engagement with the frame for removal from the container, the frame including a supporting rim circumscribing the first end; and a flexible tab depending from the rim and projecting radially into the receptacle, such that in the first configuration a distal end of the tab is configured to engage the retaining surface, and when the frame is moved from the first to the second configuration, the tab is bent towards a peripheral wall of the body and away from the retaining surface.
Bayden Filleul, Michael Nolan
Filed: 12 Dec 18
Utility
Modulating reducing sugar content in a plant
28 Feb 23
There is described herein a plant cell comprising: (i) a polynucleotide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 3 or SEQ ID NO: 9 or SEQ ID NO: 11 or SEQ ID NO: 17 or SEQ ID NO: 19 or SEQ ID NO: 21 or SEQ ID NO: 23; or a polynucleotide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 5 or SEQ ID NO: 7 or SEQ ID NO: 13 or SEQ ID NO: 15; (ii) a polypeptide encoded by the polynucleotide set forth in (i); (iii) a polypeptide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 94% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 2; or at least 93% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 4; or least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 6; or at least 96% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 8; or at least 93% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 10 or SEQ ID NO: 12; or at least 95% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 14; or at least 96% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 16; or at least 89% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 18; or at least 92% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 20; or at least 93% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 22; or at least 94% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 24; or (iv) a construct, vector or expression vector comprising the isolated polynucleotide set forth in (i), wherein said plant cell comprises at least one modification which modulates the expression or activity of the polynucleotide or the polypeptide as compared to a control plant cell in which the expression or activity of the polynucleotide or polypeptide has not been modified.
Aurore Hilfiker, Lucien Bovet
Filed: 27 Mar 19
Utility
Aerosol generating article having a mouthpiece with a modified structure
21 Feb 23
An aerosol-generating article is provided, including an aerosol-generating substrate; and a mouthpiece disposed downstream of the aerosol-generating substrate, a peripheral region of the mouthpiece including one or more closed pockets of air.
Robert Emmett
Filed: 28 Nov 18
Utility
Smoking article with front-plug and method
21 Feb 23
There is provided a smoking article that includes a plurality of elements, including a front-plug and an aerosol-forming substrate, assembled in contact with a cigarette paper to form a rod.
Gerard Zuber, Thomas Badertscher, Cedric Meyer
Filed: 28 Dec 12
Utility
Polymer
21 Feb 23
A PEGylated polymer is disclosed according to Formula 1 wherein n is any integer from 4 to 200 monomers, and R is a polymer chain comprising a 4 to 200-monomer moiety.
Snjezana Stolnik-Trenkic, Giuseppe Mantovani, Alejandro Nieto Orellana
Filed: 28 Jul 17
Utility
Aerosol-generating article having rod with multiple longitudinal elongate elements of tobacco material
14 Feb 23
An aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol when heated is provided, the aerosol-generating article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate, including: a plurality of elongate tubular elements of homogenised tobacco material assembled such that the plurality of elongate tubular elements extend in a longitudinal direction, and a wrapper circumscribing the plurality of elongate tubular elements, the plurality of elongate tubular elements being aligned substantially parallel to one another within the rod of aerosol-generating substrate.
Tony Reevell
Filed: 8 Aug 18
Utility
Flavoured rods for use in aerosol-generating articles
7 Feb 23
A rod is provided, formed from a first sheet including a tobacco material and a second sheet including a non-tobacco flavourant, the first and second sheets being gathered together and circumscribed by a wrapper.
Alessandro Metrangolo, Pierre-Yves Gindrat, John Faulkner, Jean-Pierre Schaller, Jean-Claude Schneider
Filed: 30 May 13
Utility
Smoking article with dual heat-conducting elements and improved airflow
31 Jan 23
A smoking article is provided, including a combustible heat source having opposed front and rear faces; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the rear face; a first heat-conducting element circumscribing a rear portion of the combustible heat source and at least a front portion of the aerosol-forming substrate; a second heat-conducting element around at least a portion of the first heat-conducting element, wherein at least part of the second heat-conducting element is radially separated from the first heat-conducting element; and one or more first air inlets around a periphery of the aerosol-forming substrate.
Ana Carolina Borges De Couraca, Cristina Apetrei Birza, David Kuchen, Frederic Lavanchy, Laurent Edouard Poget
Filed: 12 Aug 14
Utility
Shisha device for enhanced aerosol characteristics
31 Jan 23
A shisha device includes a vessel, an aerosol-generating element in fluid communication with the vessel, and a chamber between the vessel and the aerosol-generating element.
Felix Fernando, Ana Isabel Gonzalez Florez
Filed: 18 Jul 18
Utility
Filter manufacturing apparatus
24 Jan 23
The invention relates to a filter manufacturing apparatus including: —a feed path adapted to continuously feed a filter material along a longitudinal transport direction; —a forming device connected to a terminating end of the feed path and adapted to form the filter material into a rod-shaped continuous filter body and deliver the formed continuous filter body, the forming device including: a tubular element adapted to allow the filter material to pass therethrough to form the filter material into the continuous filter body; a heat source adapted to heat the filter material passing in the tubular element; —a diameter measuring device positioned at the outlet of the forming device and adapted to measure a diameter of the continuous filter body.
Gianni Caprini
Filed: 28 Dec 16
Utility
Method and apparatus for introducing elongated objects defining a longitudinal axis into a continuous flow of material
24 Jan 23
The invention relates to a method for introducing elongated objects defining a longitudinal axis into a continuous flow of material, the method comprising the steps of: —providing a reservoir for holding the elongated objects to be introduced into the continuous flow of material; —introducing the elongated objects from the reservoir into a transfer chamber that is arranged such that the objects are aligned therein with their longitudinal axis parallel to each other; —moving the elongated objects along a direction parallel to their longitudinal axis in a single line path from the transfer chamber to a delivery channel by a rotatable wheel, the rotatable wheel arranged adjacent the transfer chamber and adapted to move the elongated objects located in the transfer chamber by contacting the elongated objects with a peripheral surface of the rotatable wheel; —inserting the elongated objects from the delivery channel to a location where the elongated objects are to be introduced into the continuous flow of material; and —regulating an insertion speed of insertion of the elongated object from the delivery channel to a location where the elongated objects are to be introduced into the continuous flow of material on the basis of a speed of the continuous flow of material at the location in which the elongated object is to be introduced.
Ivan Prestia, Cristian Costarelli
Filed: 22 Dec 16
Utility
Electrically operated aerosol-generating device with continuous power regulation
10 Jan 23
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including an electrical power source; an electrical heater; and a power control circuit connected between the power source and the heater, the circuit including a power measuring unit configured to determine a power supplied to the heater from the power source and to output a power measurement voltage proportional to power supplied to the heater, a voltage comparator connected to the power measuring unit and configured to output a voltage difference signal based on a difference between the power measurement voltage and a reference voltage, and a power regulator connected between the power source and the heater and responsive to the voltage difference signal, the power regulator being configured to adjust a current or a voltage supplied to the heater in order to return the voltage difference signal to within a predetermined range or in order to minimize the voltage difference signal.
Jerome Christian Courbat
Filed: 4 Oct 18
Utility
Aerosol-generating system with charging device and aerosol-generating device with side coupling
10 Jan 23
An electrically operable aerosol-generating system is provided, including a charging device including a primary power source; and an elongated aerosol-generating device including a secondary power source and having a proximal end, a distal end, and a body extending between the proximal end and the distal end, the charging device having a docking arrangement configured to engage with the elongated aerosol-generating device and to charge the secondary power source by the primary power source, in which a first coupling member disposed on the body of the elongated aerosol-generating device is configured to engage with a second coupling member disposed on a wall of the charging device.
Raphael Holzherr, Hankak Lee
Filed: 1 Sep 17
Utility
Homogenized tobacco material with improved volatile transfer
3 Jan 23
There is provided a heated aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol, the heated aerosol-generating article including: an aerosol-forming substrate that is a homogenized tobacco material including tobacco, a fat having a melting point between 20° C. and 50° C., and one or more aerosol-formers, the homogenized tobacco material containing at least 60% tobacco on a dry weight basis.
Alain Sciboz, Corinne Deforel, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Marine Jarriault
Filed: 7 Nov 16
Utility
Nicotine pouch product
3 Jan 23
A nicotine pouched product is disclosed, the nicotine pouched product having a pouch composition and a pouch membrane enclosing the pouch composition, the pouch composition including at least one water-insoluble fiber, water in an amount of at least 15% by weight of the composition, and nicotine, wherein the pouch membrane comprises further nicotine in an amount of at least 15% by weight of a total content of nicotine in the pouched product.
My Ly Lao Stahl, Heidi Ziegler Bruun, Bruno Provstgaard Nielsen, Bine Hare Jakobsen
Filed: 5 Jun 20
Utility
Method for drying filter rods
3 Jan 23
The method for drying filter rods comprises the steps of providing a filter rod, providing a support surface for receiving the filter rod and guiding the filter rod on the support surface by a guide element arranged above the support surface.
Gianni Caprini
Filed: 26 Aug 21
Utility
Aerosol-generating system with ventilation airflow
27 Dec 22
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a cartridge assembly including an outer housing defining a mouthpiece having an air outlet, a cartridge having upstream and downstream ends and including first and second compartments, a mixing chamber extending between a downstream end of the cartridge and the mouthpiece air outlet, and a ventilation air inlet downstream of the cartridge; and an aerosol-generating device including a device inner housing defining a device cavity, an electrical heater configured to heat the cartridge, a power supply, a controller configured to control a supply of electrical power to the electric heater, and a device outer housing, such that when the upstream end of the cartridge is received within the device cavity, a first part of a downstream edge of the device outer housing abuts a first part of an upstream edge of the cartridge assembly outer housing to form a system outer housing.
Dionisius Elisabeth Antonius Florack, Ali Murat Saygili
Filed: 13 Jul 18
Utility
Battery powered aerosol-generating device comprising a temperature dependent battery pre-heating
27 Dec 22
An aerosol-generating system provided, including an electrically operated aerosol-generating element; a first electrochemical energy storage device (EESD) configured to supply electrical power to the aerosol-generating element; and an EESD temperature control system including at least one temperature sensor positioned to sense a temperature of the first EESD and an electrical heater configured to heat the first EESD, wherein the EESD temperature control system operates the electrical heater dependent on an output from the at least one temperature sensor.
Alain Tabasso, Fabien Duc, Jacques Robert, Michel Bessant
Filed: 15 Jun 17
Utility
Drop-in charging system for electric aerosol-generating devices
27 Dec 22
A charging system (10) for an aerosol-generating device (12) includes a charging unit (14).
Philippe Slama, Florent Cuchet, Norman Andrew Stevenson, Kyungil Chung, Peter Joseph Bevan, Michael Nolan, James Robert Lynch
Filed: 22 Apr 19
Utility
Cannabinoid pouch
27 Dec 22
A pouch designed for administration of an active ingredient in the oral cavity is disclosed, the pouch containing a matrix composition having a combination of an amount of one or more cannabinoids and a water-insoluble composition.
Heidi Ziegler Bruun
Filed: 23 Jun 17