853 patents
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Blockage Removal of Heat Sources on Conveyor Rail
10 Nov 22
The invention relates to a conveying system comprising a conveyor rail configured for conveying heat sources for aerosol-generating articles.
Gabriele Benni, Fulvio Pastore
Filed: 25 Sep 20
Utility
Aerosol Generating System with Prevention of Condensate Leakage
3 Nov 22
An aerosol-generating system for heating a liquid aerosol-forming substrate is provided, the aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-forming chamber; and leakage prevention cavity configured to prevent or reduce leakage of liquid aerosol condensate from the aerosol-generating system, the cavity being in a wall of the aerosol-forming chamber and being configured to collect liquid condensate formed from the aerosol-forming substrate, and in which the cavity is in a form of an annular groove.
Michel THORENS, Jean-Marc FLICK, Olivier Yves COCHAND, Flavien DUBIEF
Filed: 5 Jul 22
Utility
Double Activation Prevention
3 Nov 22
A holder for an inhaler article that includes a sleeve positioned within a housing cavity, a piercing element, and a lockout mechanism.
Olivier Blättler, Onur Dayioglu, Dominique Paul Gabriel Stohr, Benjamin Cook, Peter Loser, Grégoire Meylan
Filed: 2 Nov 20
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Aerosol-generating Article Having an Adjustable Heating Area
3 Nov 22
An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: an aerosol-forming substrate; and a heater assembly configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate, the heater assembly including an array of heating elements, a plurality of the heating elements of the array each including at least one circuit-breaker component, and each of the circuit-breaker components being individually activatable to selectively deactivate an area of the heater assembly prior to heating such that, upon heating, the aerosol-generating article selectively heats a portion of the aerosol-forming substrate corresponding to a non-deactivated part of the heater assembly.
Frederic NICOLAS
Filed: 1 Jul 20
Utility
Modulating Reducing Sugar Content In a Plant (Inv)
3 Nov 22
There is described herein a plant cell comprising: (i) a polynucleotide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 81% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 5 (NtINV4-S) or at least 62% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 7 (NtINV4-T); (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 85% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 6 (NtINV4-S) or at least 85% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 8 (NtINV4-T); 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 (a) the expression or activity of the polynucleotide or (b) the expression or activity of the polynucleotide the polypeptide, as compared to a control plant cell in which the expression or activity of the polynucleotide or polypeptide has not been modified.
Lucien Bovet, Aurore Hilfiker
Filed: 28 Sep 20
Utility
Method and Apparatus for Inspecting an Inductively Heatable Aerosol-generating Article for the Presence of a Susceptor and a Desired Article Alignment
3 Nov 22
The present invention relates to method for inspecting an inductively heatable aerosol-generating article (1) for the presence of a susceptor (21) using at least one sensor (110) that is responsive to the susceptor (21) being at least one of electrically conductive, magnetic or magnetized.
Andreas Loeb, Luca Bosi, Matteo Grosoli
Filed: 22 Dec 20
Utility
Heating Component In Aerosol Generating Devices
3 Nov 22
An electronic aerosol-generating device includes a housing extending between first and second ends along a longitudinal axis.
Andreas Michael Rossoll, Oleg Fursa, Enrico Stura, Jerome Christian Courbat, Oleg Mironov, Rui Nuno Batista
Filed: 18 Jul 22
Utility
an Aerosol-generating Device Having a Heat Conductive Assembly
27 Oct 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: an aerosol generator configured to generate an aerosol from an aerosol-forming substrate; a power supply; a first circuit board including a control circuit configured to control a supply of power from the power supply to the aerosol generator; a heat conductive assembly including a first end in thermal contact with the first circuit board and a second end spaced apart from the first circuit board; and a second circuit board, the first end of the heat conductive assembly being in thermal contact with the second circuit board, the second circuit board at least partially overlies the first circuit board, the second circuit board being spaced apart from the first circuit board, and the first end of the heat conductive assembly being positioned between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
Teck Yan CHAN, Soon Leong CHEW
Filed: 21 May 20
Utility
Apparatus for Manufacturing an Aerosol-generating Rod
27 Oct 22
An apparatus for manufacturing an aerosol-generating rod (10), comprising an inserter (260) for guiding a continuous band of susceptor (40), the inserter comprising: an entrance-aperture; an exit-aperture; a channel between the entrance-aperture and the exit-aperture; and a rotating mechanism to rotate the exit-aperture around the longitudinal axis of the channel; a gathering mechanism to gather a continuous sheet of aerosol-generating material (20, 120) and the continuous band of susceptor from the inserter; and a wrapper to wrap the gathered material to form a continuous rod.
Luca Bosi, Filippo Battisti
Filed: 16 Sep 20
Utility
Aerosol-generating Device with Axially Movable Induction Heater
27 Oct 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a cavity to receive an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate; and an induction heating arrangement including a susceptor arrangement and an induction coil, the induction coil being arranged at least partly surrounding the susceptor arrangement, and the induction coil being arranged axially movable along the susceptor arrangement, and a guiding element to guide the axial movement of the induction coil, the induction coil being movable to at least a first heating position and a second heating position around the cavity, the susceptor arrangement including at least a first susceptor and a second susceptor, which are arranged distanced from each other along a longitudinal axis of the aerosol-generating device, and the induction coil being movable to surround the first susceptor corresponding to the first heating position and movable to surround the second susceptor corresponding to the second heating position.
Rui Nuno BATISTA, Ricardo CALI
Filed: 25 Aug 20
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Induction Heater Comprising Central and Peripheral Susceptor
27 Oct 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate; and an induction heating arrangement including an induction coil and a susceptor assembly, the susceptor assembly including a central susceptor arrangement arranged centrally within the cavity, and a peripheral susceptor arrangement arranged distanced from and around the central susceptor arrangement, and the central susceptor arrangement including at least two central susceptors.
Rui Nuno BATISTA, Ricardo CALI
Filed: 16 Sep 20
Utility
Aerosol-generating Device Comprising Separate Air Inlets
27 Oct 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-generating article including aerosol-forming substrate; a first air inlet fluidly connected with the cavity and configured to enable ambient air to be drawn into the cavity; a second air inlet fluidly connected with the cavity and configured to enable ambient air to be drawn into the cavity; and airflow controller for controlling one or both of airflow through the first air inlet and the second air inlet.
Rui Nuno BATISTA, Ricardo CALI, Adela SAHRAOUI
Filed: 16 Sep 20
Utility
Aerosol-generating Device Comprising Air Inlets for Central and Peripheral Airflow
27 Oct 22
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate; a first air inlet fluidly connected with the cavity and configured to enable ambient air to be drawn into the cavity; and a second air inlet fluidly connected with the cavity and configured to enable ambient air to be drawn into the cavity, the first air inlet being further configured to be fluidly connected with a central portion of the cavity, and the second air inlet being further configured to be fluidly connected with a peripheral portion of the cavity.
Rui Nuno BATISTA, Ricardo CALI
Filed: 16 Sep 20
Utility
Heater Assembly with Cavity Filled with a Potting Compound
27 Oct 22
A heater assembly for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the heater assembly including: a bushing defining an aperture at a first end of the bushing and a cavity at a second end of the bushing; and an elongate electrical heater extending from the first end of the bushing, in which a portion of the elongate electrical heater extends through the aperture and into the cavity.
Sze Chiek AW, Jean Luc FRINGELI, Chow Kian YEO
Filed: 6 Jul 22
Utility
Cleaning Tool with Additional Cleaning Elements for an Aerosol-generating Device
27 Oct 22
The cleaning system for an aerosol-generating device comprises a first cleaning tool comprising a cleaning body having a cleaning head, and a housing configured to house at least part of the cleaning body.
Matteo Bologna, Ferdinando Carignani
Filed: 17 Sep 20
Utility
Aerosol-generating Article Having Rod with Multiple Longitudinal Elongate Elements of Non-tobacco Material
20 Oct 22
A heatable aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol is provided, the article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate including from about 20 to about 200 strands of non-tobacco material including and configured to release at least one aerosol former, each strand having an equivalent diameter of at least about 0.1 millimetre, the strands being assembled such that the strands extend in a longitudinal direction; and a wrapper circumscribing the strands.
Tony REEVELL
Filed: 5 Jul 22
Utility
Shisha Device with Dielectric Heater
20 Oct 22
A shisha device for heating an aerosol-forming substrate to generate an aerosol is provided, the shisha device including: a liquid cavity containing a volume of liquid through which aerosol generated by the shisha device is drawn before inhalation by a user, the liquid cavity having a head space outlet; an article cavity to receive the aerosol-forming substrate, the article cavity being in fluid communication with the liquid cavity; and an electromagnetic field generator to generate a radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic field in the article cavity, the electromagnetic field generator including a magnetron or a solid state RF transistor.
Robert EMMETT, Ana Isabel GONZALEZ FLOREZ
Filed: 1 Sep 20
Utility
Inductive Component and Method for Adjusting an Inductance Value
20 Oct 22
An inductive component is provided, including: a wire winding, around which a magnetic foil is wrapped; an electrical shielding, which surrounds the magnetic foil, the magnetic foil including at least one magnetic layer, the at least one magnetic layer including a magnetic material, and the magnetic material being a nanocrystalline iron alloy; and a non-magnetic and non-conductive insulating layer, which includes a plastic and which is disposed between the magnetic foil and the wire winding.
Oleg FURSA, Andreas Michael ROSSOLL, Enrico STURA, Stefan WEBER
Filed: 17 Sep 20
Utility
Method of Providing Oral Care Benefits
20 Oct 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: 31 May 22
Utility
Nicotine Pouch
20 Oct 22
A pouch designed for administration of an active ingredient in the oral cavity is disclosed, the pouch containing a matrix composition including a combination of nicotine and a water-soluble composition.
Heidi Ziegler Bruun
Filed: 29 Jun 22