Philip Morris Products S.a.

Stefan Lauenstein

Clement Besso

Michel Bessant

Patrick Charles Silvestrini

Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg

Ivan Eusepi

Frederic Ulysse Buehler

Marie Farine

Marc A F Van Den Boogaart

Pierre Buffat

Benoit Mivelaz

Sebastien Lanaspeze

Massimo Malavolta

Marc Af Van Den Boogaart

Jagoda Kuc

Christel Raphoz

Steve Tzimoulis

Bertrand Barbou Des Courieres

Igor Bottacco

Matteo Biasioli

Felix Frauendorfer

Gabriele Giunta

Benoît Mivelaz

Sébastien LANASPÈZE

A MEMS sound generator may be used to produce high-fidelity sound for an aerosol-generating device. The MEMS sound generator may compress air to produce sound using a plurality of drivers at a plurality of frequencies. The sound may emulate the sound of one or more conventional uses of smoking materials, emulate a masking noise, or include information. The sound generated may be modulated based on a user's puff. A user interface may be provided to configure the aerosol-generating device.

MEMS sound generation for aerosol-generating devices and related user interfaces and methods

The present invention is related to a method for producing a bobbin the method comprising the steps of: —providing a web () of a material containing alkaloids, wherein the web of a material containing alkaloids contains at least about 5 percent in dry weight basis of an aerosol-former; —feeding the web () of a material containing alkaloids to an embossing device in a transport direction; —embossing the web () of a material containing alkaloids to form an embossed web () of a material containing alkaloids; —winding the embossed web () of a material containing alkaloids in a bobbin ().

Method for producing a bobbin including a material containing alkaloids

A heater assembly is provided for an aerosol-generating system having a liquid storage portion configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the heater assembly including: an electric heater configured to heat the substrate to form an aerosol; and a capillary body configured to convey the substrate from the liquid storage portion of the system to the heater, the heater being disposed on an outer surface of the capillary body and including a heating layer including a porous sheet of electrically conductive material, the porous sheet being embossed to define a plurality of recesses on its lower surface configured to retain the substrate by capillary action and a plurality of corresponding raised portions on its upper surface, and at least part of each of the plurality of recesses being spaced from the outer surface of the capillary body in a perpendicular direction.

Heater assembly with a plurality of recesses

The dryer comprises a dryer receptacle having an inner space for receiving herbaceous material, an access assembly providing access to the inner space of the dryer receptacle, and a heating system comprising at least one access heating element for actively heating the access assembly. The access assembly comprises at least one of an inlet conveyor for supplying herbaceous material into the inner space of the dryer receptacle and an outlet conveyor for removing herbaceous material from the inner space of the dryer receptacle. The at least one access heating element comprises a conveyor heating element incorporated into the conveyor.

Dryer for herbaceous material with access heating

The Rotary dryer comprises a dryer receptacle having an inner space for receiving herbaceous material, a driving device for rotating the dryer receptacle about a rotation axis of the dryer receptacle, and a channel-shaped collector being at least partially open in its upper portion provided in the inner space of the dryer receptacle for collecting dried herbaceous material.

Dryer for herbaceous material having a channel-shaped collector

The present invention relates to a method to produce a sheet of a material containing alkaloids, the method comprising:—mixing particles of the material containing alkaloids, a binder, an aerosol former and water to form a slurry;—casting () the slurry to form a cast sheet;—drying () the cast sheet by means of a heated fluid;—recovering heat () from exhausts produced during drying;—recovering volatile substances from exhausts produced during drying; and—obtaining a flavor extract from the recovered volatile substances.

Method for the production of a sheet of material containing alkaloids

A method of producing a liquid tobacco extract is provided, the method including the steps of: preparing a tobacco starting material including natural tobacco material such that during the step of preparing the tobacco starting material, the tobacco is not subjected to any treatment adapted to alter the pH of the tobacco; heating the tobacco starting material in a flow of inert gas at an extraction temperature of between 125 degrees Celsius and 160 degrees Celsius for between 90 minutes and 270 minutes; collecting volatile compounds released from the natural tobacco starting material during the heating step; and forming a liquid tobacco extract comprising the collected volatile compounds.

Method of producing a liquid tobacco extract

An aerosol-generating device includes a sound generator to produce sound. The sound may be described as 'high fidelity.' The sound may emulate the sound of one or more conventional uses of different smoking materials, emulate a masking noise, or include information. The sound generated may be modulated based on a user's puff. A user interface may be provided to configure the aerosol-generating device, which may include selection of the smoking material to emulate. The aerosol-generating device may store a library of sounds to use with different types of aerosol-generating substrates. The sound may be retrieved from a plurality of sounds.

Aerosol-generating devices for use with different substrates and related user interfaces and methods

The invention relates to a method for producing homogenized tobacco material, comprising the steps of: selecting a first target value for a first tobacco characteristic; separately grinding () different tobacco types so as to obtain a plurality of different ground tobacco powders; blending () at least two of the plurality of different ground tobacco powders so as to form a first tobacco powder blend; blending () at least two of the plurality of different ground tobacco powders so as to form a second tobacco powder blend; checking () a value of the first tobacco characteristic in the first tobacco powder blend; if the value of the first characteristic of the first tobacco powder blend is different from the first target value, adding the second tobacco powder blend to the first tobacco powder blend in order to obtain a value of the first tobacco characteristic in a mixture of the first and the second tobacco powder blends different from the value of the first tobacco characteristic in the first tobacco powder blend; and adding () the second tobacco powder blend while mixing the first tobacco powder blend.

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Stefan Lauenstein