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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2019
Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Paul Andrew Brinkley, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Jack Gray Flinchum, Jr., Clemmons, NC (US);
Timothy Brian Nestor, Advance, NC (US);
Grady Lance Dooly, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Steven Lee Alderman, Lewisville, NC (US);
Frederic Philippe Ampolini, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
John DePiano, Burlington, MA (US);
David Smith, Needham, MA (US);
Frank S. Silveira, Wilmington, MA (US);
RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an aerosol delivery device. The aerosol delivery device may include a control body and a cartridge. The cartridge may include a base, a flow director, an outer body, a reservoir substrate, an outer body, and a mouthpiece. Heating elements may be molded into the flow director. The flow director may be welded to the base and the outer body, or the base and the flow director may include deformable ribs that engage the outer body. The flow director and the outer body may cooperatively define a reservoir compartment in which the reservoir substrate and the atomizer are received. The flow director and the base may define an electronics compartment in which an electronic control component is received. A related assembly method is also provided.