Battelle Memorial Institute

Philip Morris USA Inc.

Philip Morris Products S.a.

Stephen C Schmitt

Peter Maclyn Martin

Gary L Roberts

Dean W Matson

Wendy D Bennett

Timothy M Werner

Donald C Stewart

Jennifer L Zilka

Annalee Y Tonkovich

William Godwin Atterbury

Thomas D Haubert

Michael Anthony Lorenz

James A Prescott

Eric Hassenpflug

Michael Scott Ulrich

Ludwin M Mora

Ryan Somogye

James Leamon

Steve Wilder

Lawrence A Weinstein

Jane O'Loughlin

Larry Keith Hooks, Jr

Ludwin Mora

Michael Ko

William Atterbury

Michael Lorenz

An aerosol delivery system, which includes an aerosol delivery unit, the aerosol delivery unit including: a cartridge receiver, which is configured to receive a cartridge assembly; and an inductor configured to receive the cartridge assembly and heat a liquid formulation within a capillary tube to produce an aerosol by induction heating. The cartridge assembly including an active part of the cartridge assembly including a capillary tube; a susceptor, the susceptor configured to partially surround the capillary tube; and a pair of displaceable covers, which surround at least the capillary tube and the susceptor.

Aerosol delivery system

A multi-channel device fabrication process and multi-channel devices made therefrom wherein two ribbons of sheet material edge webs and, optionally, additional webs and/or support members are secured to a ribbon of sheet material base web. The resulting partial laminate is separated into subassemblies, each subassembly comprising a base and two edge strips and, optionally, additional strips which cooperate to define a plurality of open channels with, optionally, support members. A plurality of subassemblies may stacked together with an end plate to form a complete stack, the edges of each subassembly being attached together to form a complete unit. One or more headers or manifolds may be attached to the outside of the complete unit to provide combined fluid inlet to, and egress from, the unit.

Method of fabricating multi-channel devices and multi-channel devices therefrom

The present invention is an active microchannel fluid processing unit and method of making, both relying on having (a) at least one inner thin sheet; (b) at least one outer thin sheet; (c) defining at least one first sub-assembly for performing at least one first unit operation by stacking a first of the at least one inner thin sheet in alternating contact with a first of the at least one outer thin sheet into a first stack and placing an end block on the at least one inner thin sheet, the at least one first sub-assembly having at least a first inlet and a first outlet; and (d) defining at least one second sub-assembly for performing at least one second unit operation either as a second flow path within the first stack or by stacking a second of the at least one inner thin sheet in alternating contact with second of the at least one outer thin sheet as a second stack, the at least one second sub-assembly having at least a second inlet and a second outlet.

Active microchannel fluid processing unit and method of making

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Dublin, OH, United States of America

Stephen C Schmitt