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Utility
Ventilation for shisha device
31 Oct 23
A shisha device (10) comprises an aerosol-generating element (11) for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate (12).
Felix Fernando, David Cross, Terence John Wilby, Ana Isabel Gonzalez Florez, Ian Sparrow
Filed: 24 Apr 19
Utility
Aerosol generating system with multiple susceptors
24 Oct 23
An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: an aerosol-generating device, including a housing, a heating chamber defining a heating zone and being sized to receive at least a portion of an aerosol-forming substrate within the heating zone, an induction element disposed around, or adjacent to, the heating zone, a power supply, and a controller connected to the induction element and configured to provide an alternating electric current to the induction element to generate an alternating magnetic field within the heating zone, the induction element being configured to be 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.
Jerome Christian Courbat, Oleg Mironov, Tony Reevell, Andreas Michael Rossoll, Enrico Stura
Filed: 9 Aug 18
Utility
Aerosol-generating article comprising three dimensional code
24 Oct 23
The aerosol-generating article for use with an aerosol-generating device, the aerosol-generating article comprises an aerosol-forming substrate, and a surface area comprising a three dimensional code.
Dionisius Florack, Evan Jochnowitz
Filed: 10 Jun 20
Utility
Nicotine tablet
17 Oct 23
A water-dissolvable nicotine tablet is disclosed, the nicotine tablet comprising at least a first compressed module and a second compressed module, wherein the first compressed module is an FDT-module and comprises nicotine, alkaline pH regulating agent, and disintegrant, and, wherein the second compressed module is a lozenge-module and comprises acidic pH regulating agent.
Kent Albin Nielsen, Rikke Pranger-Rasmussen, Dorthe Schackinger Boesen, Heidi Ziegler Bruun, Bruno Provstgaard Nielsen
Filed: 14 Dec 21
Utility
Wax encapsulated zeolite flavour delivery system for tobacco
17 Oct 23
A flavour delivery system for tobacco includes a flavour material entrained in a zeolite material and forming a core and a wax material encapsulating the core.
Jan-Carlos Hufnagel, Monika Christlbauer, Irene Chetschik, Reiner Daiminger, Marcus Petermann, Andreas Kilzer, Zeljko Knez, Zoran Novak, Amra Perva Uzunalic, Simon Henske, Neven Tutnjević, Radoslav Jonak, Andrej Nose, Urban Fegus
Filed: 18 Dec 14
Utility
Fluid permeable heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system and method for assembling a fluid permeable heater for an aerosol-generating system
10 Oct 23
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, including a liquid storage portion including a housing containing a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the housing having an open end; and a heater assembly including: an electrical heating element configured to heat the substrate to form an aerosol, the heating element including a planar filament arrangement having one or more electrically conductive filaments, an electrically insulating substrate having a planar attachment face, the filament arrangement disposed on the planar attachment face, and connectors arranged at opposite ends of the heating element and forming two separate electrical contacts configured to apply power to the filament arrangement, at least a portion of the heater assembly is fluid-permeable, and the heater assembly is arranged over the open end of the housing.
Rui Batista, Jean-Marc Widmer, Jens Ulrik Poulsen
Filed: 13 Aug 21
Utility
Forming apparatus and method for forming a continuous tubular rod from a continuous tow material
10 Oct 23
The forming apparatus comprises a forming device with a tubular element adapted to form continuous tow material into a continuous tubular rod.
Massimiliano Bertoldo, Fabio Cantieri, Ivan Prestia
Filed: 24 Mar 20
Utility
Monolithic plane with electrical contacts and methods for manufacturing the same
10 Oct 23
A ground plane is provided, including: a monolithic elongated conductive member, a first portion of the monolithic elongated conductive member forming a cavity configured to receive a power supply, a plurality of second portions of the monolithic elongated conductive member respectively forming resilient elements extending over the cavity and configured to retain the power supply within the cavity, and a plurality of third portions of the monolithic elongated conductive member respectively forming parallel pins configured to receive an electronic circuit board.
Dominique Bernauer, Felix Fernando
Filed: 23 Aug 19
Utility
Compressed nicotine lozenge
19 Sep 23
A water-dissolvable compressed oral nicotine lozenge is disclosed, the oral nicotine lozenge comprising a first module and a second module, the first and the second modules being fused by compression, the first module being a lozenge module comprising at least one sugar alcohol and the second module being an FDT-module comprising at least one sugar alcohol and nicotine.
Dorthe Schackinger Boesen, Heidi Ziegler Bruun, Bruno Provstgaard Nielsen, Kent Albin Nielsen, Rikke Pranger-Rasmussen
Filed: 11 Oct 19
Utility
Nicotine and cellulose containing sheet
19 Sep 23
A sheet is provided including a cellulosic material including cellulose powder, a weight ratio of cellulose powder to total cellulosic material in the sheet on a dry weight basis being greater than about 1:2; and one or more nicotine salts, at least about 20% by weight of the one or more nicotine salts being monoprotic.
Corinne Deforel, Judith Waller, Gerard Zuber
Filed: 21 Dec 17
Utility
Jet milling method
19 Sep 23
Systems and methods are disclosed for simultaneously jet milling and conditioning particulate material comprising a grinding chamber and an aerosol generator arranged to supply liquid aerosol into the grinding chamber.
Fergus Manford, Matthew Green
Filed: 17 Dec 21
Utility
Shisha device for heating a substrate without combustion
12 Sep 23
A shisha device (100) comprises multiple receptacles for receiving a plurality of consumables (20) comprising aerosol-generating substrate.
Angelos Kolyris
Filed: 5 Apr 17
Utility
Method of making a nicotine containing sheet
5 Sep 23
A method of making a nicotine containing sheet is provided, including steps of combining a source of nicotine salt having a cellulose content of less than about 5% by weight on a dry weight basis with a separate source of fibrous material having a nicotine salt content of less than about 5% by weight on a dry weight basis to form a mixture; and drying the mixture to form a sheet.
Corinne Deforel, Judith Waller, Gerard Zuber
Filed: 21 Dec 17
Utility
Inhaler with vortex tunnel
5 Sep 23
An inhaler article includes a body extending along a longitudinal axis from a mouthpiece end to a distal end with an endpiece element at the distal end.
Gennaro Campitelli
Filed: 17 Dec 18
Utility
Inhaler with composite porous support element
5 Sep 23
An inhaler article includes a body (110) extending along a longitudinal axis from a mouthpiece (112) end to a distal end with an endpiece element at the distal end (114).
Fabiana Spadaro, Gianpaolo D'Ambra, Silvia Capo
Filed: 26 Mar 19
Utility
Method and apparatus for manufacturing a crimped web
22 Aug 23
An apparatus for and a method of manufacturing a crimped web for an aerosol-generating article is provided, including feeding a substantially continuous web to a set of crimping rollers including a first roller and a second roller, each of which is corrugated across at least a portion of a width thereof; and crimping the web by feeding the web between the rollers in a longitudinal direction of the web such that corrugations of the rollers apply a plurality of longitudinally extending and substantially parallel crimp corrugations to the web, wherein pitch values of the corrugations of one or both of the rollers vary across the width thereof such that pitch values of the crimp corrugations vary across a width of the crimped web.
Stefano Zappoli
Filed: 2 Nov 15
Utility
Hybrid aerosol-generating element and method for manufacturing a hybrid aerosol-generating element
22 Aug 23
The hybrid aerosol-generating element for use in an aerosol-generating article includes a liquid retention material for holding an aerosol-forming liquid and a solid aerosol-forming substrate arranged next to the liquid retention material.
Oleg Mironov
Filed: 19 Apr 17
Utility
Solid pharmaceutical tablet
22 Aug 23
The invention relates to a solid pharmaceutical tablet for oral delivery, the tablet comprising calcium carbonate in an amount of more than 30% by weight of the tablet and organic water-insoluble components in an amount of more than 20% by weight of the tablet, wherein the tablet is designed to be masticated into a coherent residual containing the organic water-insoluble components, and wherein the tablet is adapted to release more than 80% of the calcium carbonate within 5 minutes of mastication.
Jesper Neergaard
Filed: 21 Mar 19
Utility
Aerosol-generating article with an insulated heat source
15 Aug 23
An aerosol-generating article is provided, including an aerosol-forming substrate; a combustible heat source; at least one layer of ceramic paper circumscribing at least a portion of a length of the combustible heat source; one or more airflow pathways along which air may be drawn through the aerosol-generating article for inhalation; and one or more non-combustible, substantially air impermeable barriers between the combustible heat source and the aerosol forming substrate.
Fabien Duc
Filed: 31 May 17
Utility
Aerosol-generating device with easy clean heating chamber
15 Aug 23
An aerosol-generating device configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate to form an inhalable aerosol is provided, the aerosol-generating device including a heating chamber configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate, the heating chamber including a first end having an opening, a second end having a base, and a side wall extending between the opening and the base, a cavity being defined by inner surfaces of the base and the side wall, and a peripheral portion of the base being contoured to provide a chamfered or filleted intersection between the inner surfaces of the base and the side wall; a heating assembly; and a power supply.
Dani Ruscio, Keethan Dasnavis Fernando, Boris Mahler, Patrick Mauroux
Filed: 18 Dec 18