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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2015
R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Michael F. Davis, Clemmons, NC (US);
Yi-ping Chang, Greensboro, NC (US);
Stephen Benson Sears, Siler City, NC (US);
Karen V. Taluskie, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Susan K. Pike, Pilot Mountain, NC (US);
Nicholas Harrison Watson, Westfield, NC (US);
Stephen C. Reynolds, Dobson, NC (US);
RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc., 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 devices configured for vaporization of an aerosol precursor composition through radiant heating. The radiant heat source may be a laser diode or further element suitable for providing electromagnetic radiation, and heating may be carried out within an optional chamber, which can be a radiation-trapping chamber. In some embodiments, an interior of such chamber may be configured as a black body or as a white body.