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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2019
R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Vahid Hejazi, Concord, NC (US);
Yi-Ping Chang, Greensboro, NC (US);
Luis Monsalud, Kernersville, NC (US);
Darrell Williams, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Billy T. Conner, Clemmons, NC (US);
Karen Cleckley, Kernersville, NC (US);
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides thermal energy absorbers for use in smoking articles. In an example embodiment, the smoking article may comprise an outer wrap circumscribing at least a portion of the smoking article, wherein the smoking article is defined by an upstream lighting end and a downstream mouth end, a carbon heat source positioned proximate the lighting end, a tobacco material positioned downstream of the carbon heat source and spatially separated from the mouth end of the smoking article, and a thermal energy absorber at least partially positioned between the tobacco material and the carbon heat source.