Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.

R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Other

Performance Indicator, LLC

Dennis Lee Potter

Stephen Benson Sears

Frederic Philippe Ampolini, Sr

Balager Ademe

Eric Taylor Hunt

Steven Lee Worm

David Glen Christopherson

Chandra K Banerjee

Steven Lee Alderman

William Robert Collett

Nigel John Flynn

David Jackson

David Allan Brammer

Mo Kebaili

Timothy Brian Nestor

Bruce Alan Bengtsson

Andrew J Sensabaugh, Jr

Henry T Ridings

Mark L Raker

Amos E Westmoreland

Pankaj C Patel

David William Griffith, Jr

Yi-Ping Chang

Paul Eugene Braxton

Jeremy Barrett Mabe

Michael Andrew Liberti

Calvin Wayne Henderson

Kenneth Allen Beard

Donna K Woods

Walter Charles Liebscher, Ii

Ricky Lee Montgomery

Andries Don Sebastian

Wesley Steven Jones

Michael Francis Dube

Robert Soreo

Jackie L White

Thomas A Perfetti

Evon Llewellyn Crooks

Satish Agrawal

Barry Smith Fagg

Jeffrey Silver Taggart

Quentin Paul Guenther, Jr

Cynthia Stewart Stokes

August Joseph Borschke

M Glenn Horner

Jason Eugene Kobisky

Kevin David Blick

Geoffrey W Kennard

Stephanie Cordisco

Annette Snow Ludolf

Darren Brett Burdock-Latter

Woods, Donna K

Frederic Philippe Ampolini

Chandra Kumar Banerjee

Calvin W Henderson

Walter Charles Liebscher Ii

Jr David William Griffith

The present disclosure relates to an electronic smoking article that provides for improved aerosol delivery. Particularly, the article comprises one or more microheaters. In various embodiments, the microheaters provide for improved control of vaporization of an aerosol precursor composition and provide for reduced power requirements to achieve consistent aerosolization. The present disclosure further relates to methods of forming an aerosol in a smoking article.

Electronic smoking article comprising one or more microheaters

A vapor-enhancing apparatus is provided for an electronic vapor smoking article. Such an apparatus includes a filter material and a tubular housing defining a lumen. The lumen has a mouth-engaging end and a longitudinally-opposed component-engaging end, and is configured to receive the filter material therein. The component-engaging end is adapted to operably engage a control body portion associated with the electronic vapor smoking article and to receive a vapor therethrough. A vapor-enhancing element is operably engaged with the filter material and is configured to enhance the vapor drawn through the filter material within the lumen, and through the mouth-engaging end, by application of suction to the mouth-engaging end of the housing. An associated method is also provided.

Electronic smoking article having a vapor-enhancing apparatus and associated method

The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices include mechanisms configured to deliver an aerosol precursor composition from a reservoir to an atomizer including a vaporization heating element to produce a vapor. For example, a bubble jet head may be configured to dispense the aerosol precursor composition to the atomizer. The bubble jet head may be fixedly coupled to the atomizer. The bubble jet head may include a precursor inlet, an ejection heating element, and a precursor nozzle. The atomizer may include a vaporization heating element.

Aerosol delivery device including a bubble jet head and related method

The present invention describes articles, such as smoking articles, that can provide an inhalable substance in a form suitable for inhalation by a consumer. The article comprises a cartridge with an inhalable substance medium therein, control housing that includes an electrical energy source and an electrical power source, and a heating member that may be located in either the cartridge or the control housing. The control housing further may include puff-actuated current actuation components and current regulation components.

Smoking articles and use thereof for yielding inhalation materials

The present invention provides a conductive substrate useful for Joule heating, such as in an electronic smoking article. Particularly, the invention provides a resistive heating element formed of a conductive substrate. The conductive substrate comprises an electrically conductive material and a carbonaceous additive, such as a binder material. The conductive substrate is carbonized in that it is subjected to calcining conditions to effectively reduce the carbonaceous additive to its carbon skeleton. It has been found that such carbonized substrate has surprisingly improved resistance properties in relation a substrate of the same formulation that is not carbonized. The carbonized substrate can include an aerosol precursor material. The formed resistive heating element can be included in an electronic smoking article to simultaneously provide resistive heating and aerosol formation with a single, unitary component.

Smoking article incorporating a conductive substrate

Aerosol delivery devices including mechanisms configured to deliver an aerosol precursor composition from a reservoir to an atomizer including a vaporization heating element to produce a vapor are disclosed. For example, a bubble jet head may be configured to dispense the aerosol precursor composition to the atomizer. The bubble jet head may be fixedly coupled to the atomizer. The bubble jet head may include a precursor inlet, an ejection heating element, and a precursor nozzle. The atomizer may include a vaporization heating element.

A package that may be employed to store a tobacco-containing material is provided. The package may include a container and a valve assembly. The container may include a body portion and a cover configured to engage the body portion. The body portion may define an internal space therein. The valve assembly may be configured to affect an atmosphere within the internal space of the container. For example, the valve assembly may remain closed except when releasing pressure from the internal space. Thereby, by way of further example, the valve assembly may vent the container so as to avoid damage thereto, while reducing moisture loss from the tobacco-containing material stored in the internal space.

Package for a tobacco-containing material with a valve assembly and related packaging method

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Kernersville, NC, United States of America

Dennis Lee Potter