Philip Morris Products S.a.

Altria Client Services LLC

Oleg Mironov

Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik

Jerome Christian Courbat

Enrico Stura

Oleg Fursa

Keethan Dasnavis Fernando

Rui Nuno Batista

Tony Reevell

Michel Thorens

Dani Ruscio

Andreas Michael Rossoll

Alexandre Malgat

Irene Taurino

Jean-Marc Widmer

Frederic Lavanchy

Stephane Roudier

Eric Force

Laurent Poget

Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg

Noori Moyad Brifcani

David Murray Cross

Julien Plojoux

Yorick Klipfel

Stephane Antony Hedarchet

Michael Paton

Frederic Ulysse Buehler

Alexis Louvet

Christopher John Grant

Daniele Sanna

Ricardo Cali

Onur Dayioglu

Guillaume Frederick

Carlo Zaniboni

Roberto Mancini

Ihar Zinovik

Andrea Carraro

Aleksandra Samulewicz

Ozgur Ozsun

John Faulkner

Yannick Butin

Hans Lippert

Karen Oishi

Johann Schmidt

Sebastien Lanaspeze

Sandrine Roesti

Guenter Rinn

Benoit Sottas

Stéphane Roudier

Laurent Edouard Poget

Jérôme Courbat

Jérome Christian Courbat

Daniela Hau

Maxime Ducros

Patrick Philippe Monney

Özgür ÖZsun

Denis Nizovtsev

Rui Nuno Rodrigues Alves Batista

Rui Batista

Anne Mc Govern

The aerosol-generating device includes a housing, and a power supply configured to supply electrical power to a heating element by way of a transformer assembly within the housing. The transformer assembly includes a magnetic flux guide, a primary circuit including a primary winding extending around a first portion of the magnetic flux guide and electrically connected to the power supply, and a secondary circuit including a secondary winding inductively coupled to the primary winding and extending around a second portion of the magnetic flux guide. The number of turns in the primary winding is greater than the number of turns in the secondary winding. The secondary circuit includes at least two electrical contacts configured to form an electrical connection with the heating element.

Heater for aerosol-generating device with connectors

An electrically heatable aerosol-generating device for an aerosol-generating article is provided, including a device housing including a receiving cavity within a proximal portion of the device to receive the article; a separating wall adjacent to a distal end portion of the cavity, separating the cavity within the proximal portion from a distal portion of the device; an electrical heating device to heat an aerosol-forming substrate within the article when the article is received in the cavity; and sensing circuitry including a field generator adjacent to the distal end portion opposite to a proximal end portion of the cavity within the wall or circumferentially around a perimeter or outer circumference of the wall, the circuitry to measure a change of a property of the generator caused by a presence of an indicator at or within the article when the article is received in the cavity. An aerosol-generating system is also provided.

Aerosol-generating device for use with an aerosol-generating article comprising means for article identification

An electrically heatable aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device and a cartridge configured to be used with the aerosol-generating device, the aerosol-generating device including: a device housing, an inductor coil, and a power supply connected to the inductor coil and configured to provide a high-frequency oscillating current to the inductor coil; and the cartridge including: a cartridge housing configured to engage the device housing and containing an aerosol-forming substrate, the cartridge housing having an external surface surrounding the aerosol-forming substrate, and a fluid-permeable susceptor element. A cartridge for an electrically heatable aerosol-generating system is also provided.

Aerosol-generating system comprising a fluid permeable susceptor element

There is provided a method of controlling an aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating device including a cavity to receive an aerosol-forming substrate, an inductive heating arrangement including an inductive heating element including a susceptor heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field to heat the substrate, first and second inductor coils, and a power supply; the method including initiating heating of the substrate in the cavity by a first varying current in the first coil to generate a first varying magnetic field that heats a first portion of the element, and controlling the first current to increase a temperature of the first portion with a first profile; and subsequently driving a second varying current in the second coil to generate a second varying magnetic field that heats a second portion of the element, and controlling the second current to increase a temperature of the second portion with a second profile.

Method of operating inductively heated aerosol-generating system with multiple temperature profiles

An aerosol-generating article for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the aerosol-generating article including a main reservoir to store aerosol-forming liquid; a capillary buffer reservoir in fluid communication with the main reservoir to store the aerosol-forming liquid due to capillary action; and a liquid conduit in fluid communication at least with the capillary buffer reservoir and being configured to provide the aerosol-forming liquid at an interface to an outside of the capillary buffer reservoir and the main reservoir, in which the liquid conduit includes a filament bundle, and in which the filament bundle includes a plurality of first filaments including or being made of a first susceptor material.

Aerosol-generating article comprising a main reservoir and a capillary buffer reservoir

An aerosol-forming article for an electrically heatable aerosol-generating device is provided, the aerosol-forming article including: a mouthpiece; an aerosol-forming substrate disposed in coaxial alignment with the mouthpiece; a plurality of magnetic particles; and an outer wrapper, in which a plurality of magnetic particles are provided in the outer wrapper; or a filter, in which a plurality of magnetic particles are provided in the filter.

Aerosol-forming article comprising magnetic particles

An aerosol-generating article for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the article including: an open-ended hollow-cylindrical reservoir body including a tubular outer wall and an inner partition wall extending between two opposing inner portions of the outer wall so as to partition an inner void of the body into first and second compartments, which are laterally arranged adjacent to each other along a longitudinal axis of the body; a first end cap attached to a first end of the body that sealingly closes at least the first compartment at the first end; and a second end cap attached to a second end of the body that sealingly closes the first and the second compartments at the second end, the second end cap including a fluid passage providing a fluid communication between the first and the second compartments.

Aerosol-generating article with a multi- compartment liquid reservoir

There is described an aerosol-forming substrate for use in combination with an inductive heating device. The aerosol-forming substrate comprises a solid material which is capable of releasing volatile compounds that can form an aerosol upon heating of the aerosol-forming substrate and at least a first susceptor material for heating the aerosol-forming substrate. The at least first susceptor material is arranged in thermal proximity of the solid material. The aerosol-forming substrate further comprises at least a second susceptor material which has a second Curie-temperature which is lower than a first Curie-temperature of the first susceptor material. The second Curie-temperature of the second susceptor material corresponds to a predefined maximum heating temperature of the first susceptor material. There is also described an aerosol-delivery system.

Aerosol-forming substrate and aerosol-delivery system

An aerosol-generating system is provided, including a main component and a cartridge that is removably coupled to the main component, the cartridge including a liquid storage portion containing a liquid aerosol-forming substrate and a fluid-permeable electric heater assembly, and the main component includes a power supply, the heater assembly including: an electrically insulating substrate, an aperture being formed in the substrate, and a heater element fixed to the substrate, the heater element spanning the aperture and including a plurality of electrically conductive filaments connected to first and second electrically conductive contact portions, the first and the second contact portions being disposed on opposite sides of the aperture to one another, the first and the second contact portions being configured to allow contact with the power supply, and the heater assembly being provided at an end of the cartridge that is opposite to a mouthpiece portion of the system.

Aerosol-generating system having a fluid-permeable heater assembly

An aerosol-generating article may include a base layer, at least one aerosol-forming substrate positioned on the base layer, and a cover layer overlying the at least one aerosol-forming substrate and secured to the base layer so that the at least one aerosol-forming substrate is sealed between the base layer and the cover layer. The cover layer includes a polymeric film comprising at least one of a plurality of micropores and a plurality of microperforations.

Aerosol-generating article having a cover layer

A susceptor assembly is provided for inductively heating an aerosol-forming substrate under an influence of an alternating magnetic field, the susceptor assembly including: one or more composite susceptor particles, each one of the one or more composite susceptor particles including a particle core and a particle shell entirely encapsulating the particle core, in which the particle core includes or is made of a ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic core material having a relative magnetic permeability of at least 200 for frequencies up to 10 kHz at a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius, and in which the particle shell includes or is made of an electrically conductive shell material. An aerosol-generating article for an inductively heating aerosol-generating device, and an aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating article, are also provided.

Susceptor assembly comprising one or more composite susceptor particles

A split airflow system for an electrically heatable smoking system for generating aerosol is provided, the system having a downstream end, the system including: a first channel defining a first flow route; and a second Channel defining a second flow route, the first flow route directing ambient air from outside the split airflow system to the downstream end of the split airflow system, the second flow route directs ambient air from outside the split airflow system towards a substantially flat, fluid-permeable heating element before conveying the ambient air to the downstream end, and the first channel and the second channel define a total volume of ambient air passing through the split airflow system and the first channel provides at least 50 percent of the total volume of ambient air passing through the split airflow system.

Split airflow system for an electrically heated smoking system and method for guiding an airflow inside an electrically heated smoking system

The inductively heatable tobacco product for aerosol-generation includes an aerosol-forming substrate containing a susceptor in the form of a plurality of particles. The aerosol-forming substrate is a crimped tobacco sheet comprising tobacco material, fibers, binder, aerosol-former and the susceptor in the form of the plurality of particles.

Inductively heatable tobacco product

An electrically heatable aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device and a cartridge, the cartridge including: a cartridge housing including an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner wall being disposed within the outer wall and defining an internal passage through which air can flow, the inner and outer walls defining a hollow space therebetween, an aerosol-forming substrate contained within the space, and a susceptor element; and the device including: a device housing defining a cavity to receive at least a portion of the cartridge, an inductor coil positioned in the device housing around or adjacent to the cavity and positioned outside of the cartridge when the cartridge is received in the cavity, and a power supply connected to the coil and to provide a high-frequency oscillating current to the coil, such that a magnetic field generated by the coil causes generation of heat in the susceptor element.

Aerosol-generating system comprising a cartridge with an internal air flow passage

A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the cartridge including: a liquid storage portion including a housing to contain a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; and a heater assembly including an electrically insulating element having an opening, an electrical heating element supported by the insulating element and to heat the substrate to form an aerosol, first and second electrically conductive contact portions disposed at opposite sides of the opening and to contact with a battery to supply power to the heater assembly, and a capillary material including a ceramic or a ceramic-based material and having first and second faces, the first face being in physical contact with the heating element and the second face being opposite the first face, the capillary material to convey the substrate to the heating element by capillary action, the heater assembly being fixed to the housing of the liquid storage portion.

Cartridge for an aerosol-generating system

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Neuchatel, Switzerland

Oleg Mironov