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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2014
R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Karen V. Taluskie, Cary, NC (US);
Stephen Benson Sears, Siler City, NC (US);
Eric Taylor Hunt, Pfafftown, NC (US);
William Robert Collett, Lexington, NC (US);
Yi-ping Chang, Greensboro, NC (US);
Kristen Dodds Weight, Stow, MA (US);
Jeffrey A. Karg, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Graham P. Eacock, Westborough, MA (US);
Matthew C. Ebbs, Newton-Highlands, MA (US);
Robert C. Uschold, Leominster, MA (US);
Walker MacLaughlin Sloan, III, Berlin, MA (US);
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a heating member that can be formed of a heating element conformed to a heater substrate configured as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods of forming an aerosol delivery device, which can include providing a shell, providing a heating member formed of a heating element conformed to a substrate, configuring the heating member as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size, and inserting the heating member within the shell.