Philip Morris Inc.

Philip Morris USA Inc.

Chrysalis Technologies Incorporated

Philip Morris Products S.a.

Clinton E Blake

Kenneth A Cox

Douglas D McRae

Rajiv Gupta

David Keeler

John Louis Felter

Mark T Capps

Charles T Higgins

Robert L Ripley

H Neal Nunnally

John R Hairfield, Jr

David H Keeler

A programmable aerosol generator forms a volatilized liquid by supplying a material in liquid form to a flow passage and heating the flow passage, such that the material volatilizes and expands out of an outlet of the channel. The volatilized material, if desired, mixes with ambient air such that volatilized material condenses to form the aerosol. An apparatus and method for generating such a volatilized liquid, as well as the control and methods of heating, are disclosed as an analytical tool useful for experimental use, a tool useful for production of commercial products or an inhaler device.

Method and apparatus for generating a volatilized liquid

An electrically heating smoking system wherein tobacco smoke is generated by heating a portion of a cigarette with an electrical resistance heating element powered by lithium ion battery cells. The lithium ion battery cells supply current to the electrical resistance heating element with current up to 20 times greater than the recommended discharge rate. To prevent damage to the lithium ion battery cells under such high discharge conditions, the smoking system includes a controller which provides modulated pulses of electrical power from the battery cells to the resistance heating element during smoking of the cigarette.

Electrically heated smoking system and methods for supplying electrical power from a lithium ion power source

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Mechanicsville, VA, United States of America

Clinton E Blake