853 patents
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Utility
Aerosol-generating System Having an Air Ingress Zone
13 Apr 23
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: an aerosol-generating article including a rod of aerosol-forming substrate, a filter downstream of the rod, the rod and the filter being assembled within a wrapper, and an air ingress zone located on the wrapper and being configured to allow ingress of air into an interior of the article; and an aerosol-generating device having distal and mouth ends and including a housing defining a device cavity to removably receive the article at the mouth end, a heater to heat the substrate when the article is received within the cavity, and an air-flow channel extending between a channel inlet and outlet and establishing fluid communication between an interior of the cavity and an exterior of the device, in which there is fluid communication between the interior of the aerosol-generating article and the exterior of the aerosol-generating device when the article is received within the cavity.
Guillaume Bastien BAUR, Daniele SANNA, Jerome UTHURRY
Filed: 12 Mar 21
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Aerosol-generating Article Having Novel Configuration
13 Apr 23
An aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating is provided, the aerosol-generating article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; and a downstream section arranged downstream of the rod of aerosol-generating substrate and in axial alignment with the rod of aerosol-generating substrate, the downstream section including one or more downstream elements, the aerosol-generating article being arranged such that a center of mass of the aerosol-generating article is at least 60 percent of the way along a length of the aerosol-generating article from a downstream end.
Edoardo MONTANARI, Jerome UTHURRY, Milica NESOVIC, Paola ORSOLINI
Filed: 24 Feb 21
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Aerosol-generating Article Having a Plurality of Air Ingress Zones
13 Apr 23
An aerosol-generating article for producing an aerosol upon heating is provided, the aerosol-generating article including: a rod of aerosol-forming substrate; and a filter positioned downstream of the rod of aerosol-forming substrate, the filter including a hollow tubular segment, the rod of aerosol-forming substrate and the filter being assembled within a wrapper; and first and second air ingress zones located on the wrapper, the first and the second air ingress zones each being configured to allow ingress of air into an interior of the article, the first air ingress zone being located along the rod and the second air ingress zone being located along the hollow tubular segment.
Guillaume Bastien BAUR, Daniele SANNA, Jerome UTHURRY
Filed: 12 Mar 21
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Ventilated Aerosol-generating Article with Upstream Porous Segment
13 Apr 23
An aerosol-generating article is provided for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating, the article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; a downstream section at a location downstream of the rod and including: a support element located immediately downstream of the rod and being in longitudinal alignment with the rod and including a first hollow tubular segment, and an aerosol cooling element immediately downstream of the support element and in longitudinal alignment with the support element and the rod, the aerosol-cooling element including a second hollow tubular segment; a ventilation zone at a location along the second hollow tubular segment; and an upstream section at a location upstream of the rod and including an upstream element positioned immediately upstream of the rod and having a resistance-to-draw (RTD) of less than 80 millimetres H2O, in which the article has a ventilation level of at least 10 percent.
Massimiliano BERTOLDO, Ayoub LHAOU, Edoardo MONTANARI, Jerome UTHURRY, Milica NESOVIC
Filed: 24 Feb 21
Utility
Aerosol-generating Device and System
13 Apr 23
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a membrane having an aerosol-generation zone, in which the aerosol-generation zone includes a plurality of nozzles, the plurality of nozzles being the only nozzles in the aerosol-generation zone; and an actuator coupled to the membrane, in which the actuator is configured to excite the membrane to induce a vibration of the membrane at one or more predetermined modal frequencies of the membrane such that a liquid aerosol-forming substrate passing through the plurality of nozzles is aerosolised, in which more than 50% of the plurality of nozzles are located closer to antinodes than to nodes of the membrane, where the antinodes and the nodes correspond to the membrane being excited at the one or more predetermined modal frequencies of the membrane, and in which the membrane progressively changes in thickness from a centre of the membrane to a peripheral edge of the membrane.
Leander DITTMANN, Robert EMMETT
Filed: 10 Mar 21
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Aerosol-generating Article Having a Plurality of Air Ingress Zones
13 Apr 23
An aerosol-generating article for producing an aerosol upon heating is provided, the article including: a rod of aerosol-forming substrate including an aerosol former, the aerosol-forming substrate having an aerosol former content of greater than 10 percent on a dry weight basis; and a filter positioned downstream of the rod of aerosol-forming substrate, in which the rod and the filter are assembled within a wrapper, the aerosol-generating article further including first and second air ingress zones located on the wrapper, the first and the second air ingress zones each being configured to allow the ingress of air into an interior of the aerosol-generating article, in which the second air ingress zone is located at a position at least 1.5 mm downstream of the first air ingress zone.
Guillaume Bastien BAUR, Daniele SANNA, Jerome UTHURRY
Filed: 12 Mar 21
Utility
Aerosol-generating Device for Inductive Heating of an Aerosol-forming Substrate
13 Apr 23
An aerosol-generating device is provided for generating an aerosol by inductive heating of an aerosol-forming substrate, the device including: a device housing including a cavity to removably receive the substrate; first and second induction coils arranged and configured to generate an alternating magnetic field within first and second sections of the cavity, respectively; and a control circuit to selectively drive the first and the second coils to selectively generate an alternating magnetic field within the first and the second sections, respectively, the circuit including: a first LC resonator circuit including the first coil and a first capacitor, and a second LC resonator circuit including the second coil and a second capacitor, the first and the second circuits having a first and a second resonance frequency, respectively, and a driving oscillator circuit including a common oscillator coil to selectively generate an alternating magnetic oscillator field.
Oleg MIRONOV, Jerome Christian COURBAT, Enrico STURA
Filed: 14 Oct 20
Utility
Charger and Aerosol-generating System with a Multi-component Cover
13 Apr 23
A charger for charging an aerosol-generating device is provided, the charger including: a housing defining a cavity to receive the device to be charged, the cavity having an opening; at least one electrical contact disposed in the cavity; and a cover including a plurality of moveable elements actuatable between open and closed positions, each of the moveable elements having an inner surface facing the cavity when in the closed position, at least a portion of the inner surface of at least one of the moveable elements defines a profiled engagement member having leading and trailing edges, and the profiled engagement member slopes into, or towards, the cavity when the respective moveable element is in the closed position, the slope increasing in a direction from the leading to the trailing edge.
Ivan PRESTIA
Filed: 16 Oct 20
Utility
Ventilated Aerosol-generating Article with Induction Heating
6 Apr 23
An aerosol-generating article is provided for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating, the article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; a downstream section at a location downstream of the rod and including an aerosol-cooling element in longitudinal alignment with the rod, in which the aerosol-cooling element includes a hollow tubular segment that defines a cavity extending all the way from an upstream end to a downstream end of the hollow tubular segment; and a ventilation zone at a location along the hollow tubular segment, the hollow tubular segment having a length of less than about 10 millimetres, in which a volume ratio between a ventilation airflow admitted into the article via the ventilation zone at the location along the hollow tubular segment and a sum of an airflow from the rod and the ventilation airflow is of from about 25 percent to about 45 percent.
Fabio CANTIERI, Gianpaolo D'AMBRA, Jerome UTHURRY, Milica NESOVIC
Filed: 24 Feb 21
Utility
Flexible Heater and Electronics
6 Apr 23
A heater for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the heater including: a flexible electrically insulating substrate including a first portion, a second portion, and a fourth portion, in which the flexible electrically insulating substrate is rolled into a tube; control electronics disposed on the first portion of the flexible electrically insulating substrate; a heating element including an induction coil and being disposed on the second portion of the flexible electrically insulating substrate; and a susceptor element arranged on the fourth portion of the flexible electrically insulating substrate.
Rui NUNO BATISTA, Edward KIERNAN
Filed: 21 Dec 20
Utility
Aerosol-generating Article with Elongate Susceptor
30 Mar 23
An aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating is provided, the aerosol-generating article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; and an elongate susceptor arranged longitudinally within the aerosol-generating substrate, the susceptor extending all the way to a downstream end of the rod of aerosol-generating substrate, the susceptor having a thickness from about 55 micrometers to about 65 micrometers, and a ratio between a length of the susceptor and an overall length of the aerosol-generating article being from about 0.2 to about 0.35.
Massimiliano BERTOLDO, Ivan PRESTIA, Andreas Michael ROSSOLL, Johann Friedrich SCHMIDT, Enrico STURA, Milica NESOVIC
Filed: 24 Feb 21
Utility
Method and Apparatus for Interactive and Privacy-preserving Communication Between a Server and a User Device
30 Mar 23
A computer-implemented method is provided for interactive communication of a user device with a server, the method including: providing, on the user device, a notification to a user of the user device; acquiring reaction data indicative of a reaction of the user to the notification; and determining, based on the acquired reaction data, a sentiment score for transmission to the server, in which the sentiment score is indicative of a sentiment of the user in reaction to the notification.
Debmalya BISWAS, Louis BECK
Filed: 18 Feb 21
Utility
Aerosol Generating System with Multiple Susceptors
30 Mar 23
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate, and an aerosol-generating device having a housing, a heating chamber defining a heating zone and sized to receive the substrate therein, an induction element around the zone, a power supply, and a controller connected to the element to provide an alternating electric current to the element to generate an alternating magnetic field within the zone, the element being controlled to sequentially provide a first alternating magnetic field having a first frequency for a first period of time followed by a second alternating magnetic field having a second frequency for a second period of time, the element being first and second coils, the first and the second coils being actuatable to provide the first and the second fields, respectively, and the article and the chamber being arranged so the article is partially received within the chamber.
Jerome Christian COURBAT, Oleg MIRONOV, Tony REEVELL, Andreas Michael ROSSOLL, Enrico STURA
Filed: 1 Dec 22
Utility
Aerosol Generating Article with Non-combustible Coating
30 Mar 23
Fabien Duc, Urs Gonzenbach, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Chiara Spadaro, Philip Sturzenegger
Filed: 13 Oct 20
Utility
Aerosol-generating Article with Predetermined Insertion Direction
30 Mar 23
An aerosol-generating article is provided, extending from a mouth end to an upstream distal end, and including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; a downstream section at a location downstream of the rod and including a mouthpiece element downstream of and in longitudinal alignment with the rod, the element extending all the way to the mouth end; an upstream section upstream of the rod and including an upstream element including a segment of filtration material and extending all the way to a distal end of the article; and a first band of tipping paper at least partially circumscribing the mouthpiece element and affixing the mouthpiece to an immediately adjacent, upstream component of the article, and a second band of tipping paper circumscribing the first band, an article diameter (DME) at the mouth end being greater than an article diameter (DDE) at the distal end, a ratio (DME/DDE) being at least 1.005.
Milica NESOVIC
Filed: 24 Feb 21
Utility
High Barrier Powder Capsule
23 Mar 23
A capsule article (100) includes a polymeric body (110) extending along a longitudinal axis from a first end to a second end and defining a capsule cavity (105) containing powder, and a metal foil (120) and a sealant layer (130) covering an outer surface of the polymeric body.
Ross Lange, Cristian Neagu, Cesare Lorenzetti
Filed: 23 Feb 21
Utility
Inhaler Mouthpiece with Separate Flavour Air Channel
23 Mar 23
An inhaler article includes a body extending along a longitudinal axis from a mouthpiece end to a distal end.
Rui Nuno Batista
Filed: 23 Feb 21
Utility
Aerosol-generating Device with Cold Plasma Cleaning
23 Mar 23
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a heating element to heat an aerosol-generating article to generate an aerosol; and a cleaning apparatus arranged to cooperate with the heating element and to clean a surface of the heating element, in which the cleaning unit includes at least one piezoelectric element, and in which the piezoelectric element is configured to generate cold plasma to clean the surface of the heating element.
Ricardo CALI, Irene TAURINO, Toney Moses RAJAN
Filed: 25 Feb 21
Utility
Aerosol-generating Article with Improved Configuration
23 Mar 23
An aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating is provided, the article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate; a mouthpiece element having a length L1 and including at least one mouthpiece filter segment formed of a fibrous filtration material; and an intermediate hollow section between the rod and the mouthpiece element, the intermediate hollow section having a length L2 and including: an aerosol-cooling element downstream of the rod and including a hollow tubular segment defining a longitudinal cavity providing an unrestricted flow channel, a length of the aerosol-cooling element being less than 10 millimetres, and a support element between the aerosol-cooling element and the rod, in which an upstream end of the aerosol-cooling element abuts a downstream end of the support element, and in which the length L1 of the mouthpiece element is at least 0.4 times the length L2 of the intermediate hollow section.
Massimiliano BERTOLDO, Gianpaolo D'AMBRA, Mirko MINZONI, Edoardo MONTANARI, Ivan PRESTIA, Johann Friedrich SCHMIDT, Jerome UTHURRY, Milica NESOVIC
Filed: 24 Feb 21
Utility
Aerosol-generating Article Including Substrate with Gel Composition
23 Mar 23
An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate including a gel composition including at least one gelling agent, at least one of an alkaloid compound and a cannabinoid compound, and an aerosol former; a mouthpiece element; and an intermediate hollow section between the rod and the mouthpiece element and including: a support element downstream of the rod and including a first hollow tubular segment defining a first longitudinal cavity providing a first unrestricted flow channel, the first segment having at least 1 millimeter wall thickness, and an aerosol-cooling element in axial alignment with the mouthpiece element and abutting an upstream end of the mouthpiece element, the aerosol-cooling element including a second hollow tubular segment having a length of less than 10 millimeters, the second segment defining a second longitudinal cavity providing a second unrestricted flow channel, the first and the second channels being empty.
Gianpaolo D'AMBRA, Milica NESOVIC, Paola ORSOLINI, Jerome UTHURRY
Filed: 24 Feb 21