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Utility
Visual User Interface for Aerosol-generating Devices
19 Aug 20
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: 24 Sep 18
Utility
a Cartridge for an Aerosol-generating System and an Aerosol-generating System Comprising a Cartridge
19 Aug 20
There is provided a cartridge for an aerosol-generating system, the cartridge including: a first compartment having a first air inlet and a first air outlet, the first compartment containing a nicotine source including a first carrier material impregnated with between about 1 milligram and about 40 milligrams of nicotine; and a second compartment having a second air inlet and a second air outlet, the second compartment containing a lactic acid source including a second carrier material impregnated with between about 2 milligrams and about 60 milligrams of lactic acid.
Judith WALLER, Marie FARINE, Patrick SILVESTRINI
Filed: 20 Dec 16
Utility
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19 Aug 20
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the cartridge including: a liquid storage portion configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; and a heater assembly including: an electrical heating element configured to heat the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol, and a capillary body having a porous outer surface and being configured to convey the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to the electrical heating element, the electrical heating element being disposed along the porous outer surface, the liquid storage portion being disposed at a first side of the heater assembly and an airflow channel is disposed at an opposite side of the heater assembly to the first side and adjacent to the electrical heating element, defining an airflow path that extends past the electrical heating element and is configured to convey the aerosol.
Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Jerome Courbat
Filed: 6 May 20
Utility
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12 Aug 20
An aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating is provided, the article including a rod of an aerosol-generating substrate, the rod including from about 20 strands to about 200 strands of non-tobacco material including and configured to release at least one aerosol former, each strand of the strands having an equivalent diameter of at least about 0.1 mm, the strands being assembled such that the strands extend in a longitudinal direction of the rod; and a wrapper circumscribing the strands.
Tony REEVELL
Filed: 7 Aug 18
Utility
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12 Aug 20
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: 10 Oct 18
Utility
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12 Aug 20
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: 31 Aug 17
Utility
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5 Aug 20
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing having a chamber configured to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-generating article; and an induction heater configured to heat the aerosol-generating article received within the chamber of the housing, the induction heater including an induction coil and a heating element, the heating element being arrangeable within the induction coil, and the induction coil being movable relative to the chamber of the housing, the induction coil and the heating element being moveable with respect to each other between at least a first operable position and a second operable position.
Tony REEVELL
Filed: 5 Aug 18
Utility
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5 Aug 20
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: 24 Jul 18
Utility
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5 Aug 20
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing having a chamber sized to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-forming substrate, the chamber defining a heating zone; a first coil disposed at least partially around, or adjacent to, the heating zone; and a second coil disposed at least partially around, or adjacent to, the heating zone, the first coil being a drive coil couplable to a source of alternating current, and the second coil being a resonant coil of a resonant circuit, the second coil being inductively couplable to the first coil.
Oleg MIRONOV, Jerome Christian COURBAT, Tony REEVELL, Enrico STURA
Filed: 8 Aug 18
Utility
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5 Aug 20
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, the charging device having a docking arrangement configured to engage with the elongated aerosol-generating device, the docking arrangement including a docking space defined between a first end, and an opposing second end spaced from and fixed relative to the first end, the docking space accommodating a longitudinal dimension of the elongated aerosol-generating device.
Raphael HOLZHERR, Hankak LEE
Filed: 31 Aug 17
Utility
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5 Aug 20
A method of providing maintenance services to at least one user of an electrically operated smoking device using an automatic testing apparatus is provided, the method including: making the automatic testing apparatus publicly accessible; determining a connection of the electrically operated smoking device to the automatic testing apparatus; performing automatic electrical testing of the electrically operated smoking device; automatically extracting usage data from the electrically operated smoking device; and performing a software update or a software reset of the electrically operated smoking device; and/or automatically generating an electrical test report based on the performed automatic electrical testing, automatically providing the electrical test report together with a recommended action to the at least one user, and automatically sending or saving the electrical test report together with the automatically extracted usage data to a data store.
Felix FERNANDO, Stephane Hedarchet, Noori Moyad Brifcani
Filed: 22 Apr 20
Utility
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29 Jul 20
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 Nuno BATISTA, Tony REEVELL
Filed: 5 Aug 18
Utility
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29 Jul 20
An aerosol generating article (10) comprises: an aerosol generating substrate (12); a mouthpiece (14); and a tipping wrapper (20) comprising: a first weakening line (22) extending around at least a portion of the tipping wrapper (20); a removable tipping wrapper portion (26) extending downstream from the first weakening line (22); an upstream tipping wrapper portion (24) extending upstream from the first weakening line (22); a first longitudinal edge (30) extending along the outer surface of the aerosol generating article; and a second longitudinal edge (32) opposed to the first longitudinal edge (30) and overlying the mouthpiece (14).
Diogo Meira Brandao, Nicolas Bueche, Alen Kadiric
Filed: 24 Sep 17
Utility
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29 Jul 20
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing having a chamber; an induction coil disposed around at least a portion of the chamber; a heating compartment configured to receive an aerosol-generating article and being detachably insertable into the chamber of the housing, the heating compartment including a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the aerosol-generating article; and a heating element arrangeable within the cavity of the heating compartment, the heating element extending into the cavity in a longitudinal direction of the cavity, and being configured to penetrate an aerosol-forming substrate in the aerosol-generating article and received in the cavity.
Oleg MIRONOV, Oleg FURSA, Jerome Christin COURBAT, Tony REEVELL, Andreas Michael ROSSOLL, Enrino STURA
Filed: 5 Aug 18
Utility
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29 Jul 20
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including an induction heater configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate, the heater including an induction coil and a heating element, the heating element being arrangeable within the induction coil; and a housing including first and second housing portions, the first housing portion including a power supply configured to supply power to the induction coil and a controller configured to control the supply of power to the induction coil, and the second housing portion includes the induction coil, and is configured to receive a consumable containing the aerosol-forming substrate, the first and the second housing portions are movable between a first operable position and a second position in which the first and the second housing portions are displaced and the heating element is accessible, and the heating element is configured to be replaced when the first and the second housing portions are in the second position.
Enrico STURA, Oleg MIRONOV, Oleg FURSA, Tony REEVELL
Filed: 5 Aug 18
Utility
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29 Jul 20
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: an induction heater configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate and including an induction coil and a heating element, the heating element being arrangeable within the induction coil, the induction coil including a first side opening along a longitudinal length of the induction coil, and the first side opening being configured to enable access to the heating element; and a housing, the induction coil being arranged within the housing, and the housing including a second side opening, which corresponds to the first side opening of the induction coil within the housing.
Enrico STURA, Oleg MIRONOV, Tony REEVELL
Filed: 5 Aug 18
Utility
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22 Jul 20
A method for enhancing hardness of a filter (30) for a smoking article (10) includes disposing a plug wrap (60) about filter material; and applying a hardness-enhancing coating composition to the plug wrap after the plug wrap has been disposed about the filter material to enhance the hardness of the filter.
Ivan Prestia, Alberto Bonici, Emeric Grandjean, Edoardo Montanari, Ivan Chiarini, Michele Del Borrello
Filed: 1 Jun 17
Utility
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22 Jul 20
An aerosol-generating article is provided, including a combustible heat source; an aerosol-generating substrate adjacent the heat source; a freshener segment upstream of the heat source and at least partially covering an upstream end of the heat source, the freshener segment including a segment of support material having an annular shape defining a channel extending through at least a part of the segment between upstream and downstream ends thereof, and at least one freshener delivery element contained within the channel and being detachable from the heat source to expose the heat source prior to use of the article; and a wrapper circumscribing at least the freshener segment and the heat source, including a line of weakness extending around the wrapper and overlying an upstream edge of the heat source so that the freshener segment is detachable from the heat source by breaking the wrapper along the line of weakness.
Clement BESSO
Filed: 17 Oct 18
Utility
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22 Jul 20
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including a storage portion configured to store an aerosol-forming substrate; an aerosol-generating element configured to generate an aerosol from the aerosol-forming substrate; a control circuitry in communication with the storage portion or the aerosol-generating element; and disabling means for rendering the storage portion inoperable in the aerosol-generating system in response to a disable signal from the control circuitry.
Jean-Marc FLICK
Filed: 29 Mar 20
Utility
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22 Jul 20
A rod for use in a smoking article comprises a gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material circumscribed by a wrapper.
Pierre-Yves GINDRAT
Filed: 5 Apr 20