Nicoventures Trading Limited

Howard Rothwell

Rory Fraser

Carolyn Garnett

Marina Trani

Jeremy Wright

Jared Aller

Cale Kaufman

Richard Haines

Nick Talbot, Ii

Sudarshan Malapanagudi

Vasanthan Mani

Suresh Kumar Natarajan

Sudarshan Mahalingam

Yashas Dinesh Shetty

William Duncan Webb, Ii

Jan Schmitt

Carla El-assaad

Abhilash Radhakrishnan

A reservoir for refilling an article of an aerosol provision system includes a reservoir body configured to store aerosol-generating material, and a moveable component within the reservoir body. The moveable component is configured to move within the reservoir body as aerosol generating material is transferred from the reservoir. In response to the moveable component moving to a predetermined position within the reservoir body, either: a piercing component located on the reservoir body is configured to puncture the moveable component to prevent the reservoir from being refilled with aerosol-generating material; or a piercing component located on the moveable component is configured to puncture the reservoir body to prevent the reservoir from being refilled with aerosol-generating material.

Reservoir for refilling an article of an aerosol provision system

A refilling device for an article of an aerosol provision system comprises refilling control circuitry configured to facilitate the transfer of aerosol-generating material from a reservoir to the article in response to detecting that the article has been received by the refilling device.

Refilling device, refilling apparatus and method

A component of an electronic vapor provision device with a reservoir for storing source liquid, an atomizer for vaporizing source liquid from the reservoir and delivering vapor into an air flow path through the device, and an electrical power supply for providing electrical power to the atomizer comprises an absorbent element to collect source liquid escaped from the reservoir and located so as to be upstream of the atomizer with respect to an air flow direction along the air flow path when the component is assembled into the electronic vapor provision device.

Electronic vapor provision device with absorbent element

An assembly for a vapor provision device includes a reservoir for storing source liquid; a liquid conduit for delivering the source liquid from the reservoir to a vapor generator for vaporizing the source liquid; and a liquid capture element in liquid transfer contact with at least a portion of the liquid conduit between the vapor generator and a part of the liquid conduit that receives liquid from the reservoir, and including an absorbent structure providing a higher capillary force than a capillary force of the reservoir.

Vapor provision device with liquid capture

A method for obtaining a heating element for an electronic vapor provision system includes providing a sheet of electrically conductive porous material, measuring amounts of light transmitted through at least two locations on the sheet to obtain a set of optical transmission values including a maximum value and a minimum value, comparing a difference value calculated from the maximum and minimum values with a predetermined acceptable variation in optical transmission, and selecting the sheet for use as a heating element if the difference value falls within the acceptable variation.

Heating element and method of analyzing

A method for obtaining a heating element for an electronic vapor provision system, the method including providing a sheet of electrically conductive porous material, directing light onto at least a portion of the sheet, detecting an amount of the light transmitted through the portion of the sheet, comparing the amount of light detected to a range of light transmission values known to correspond to a predetermined range of electrical resistance values required for the portion, and selecting the portion of the sheet for use as a heating element if the amount of detected light lies within the range of light transmission values, and otherwise rejecting the portion of the sheet.

Heating element selection method

An assembly for a vapor provision device includes a vapor generator for vaporizing source liquid, a liquid conduit for delivering source liquid from a reservoir to the vapor generator, and a liquid capture element in liquid transfer contact with at least a portion of the liquid conduit between the vapor generator and a part of the liquid conduit that receives liquid from the reservoir, and including an absorbent structure providing a lower capillary force than a capillary force of the liquid conduit.

In a method of laser welding, a solid metal component is placed in contact with a porous metal component at an interface region, a laser beam is directed onto the solid metal component to cause heating and melting of one or more portions of the solid metal component in the interface region, and the melted metal portions flow into interstices in the porous metal component and then solidify by cooling such that portions of the porous metal component adjacent the interstices are integrated into the metal of the solid metal component thereby bonding the solid metal component and the porous metal component.

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