公开(公告)号：AU716026B2

公开(公告)日：2000-02-17

申请号：AU5357298

申请日：1997-11-25

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： ADAMS JOHN M ,  CROWE WILLIAM J ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER S ,  FOURNIER JAY A ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  HOUCK WILLIE G JR ,  LOSEE DONALD B ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  NAWORAL JOHN D ,  NUNNALLY H NEAL ,  PAINE JOHN B III ,  RAYMOND WYNN R ,  RIPLEY ROBERT L ,  SEEMAN JEFFREY I ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M ,  WATKINS MICHAEL L

IPC: A24F47/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for cleaning an electrical lighter are provided. A sleeve, e.g., ceramic or metal, surrounds the heater fixture, and a resistive heating element is in thermal proximity with the sleeve. The resistive heating element is either a dedicated element or the cigarette heating elements. The sleeve serves as a aerosol barrier and condensate accumulator to protect other components. Periodically, e.g., substantially contemporaneously with a battery recharge, the heating element is activated to thermally liberate condensates deposited on the sleeve during smoking and also heats, and thereby cleans, other components. Also, a cleaning element is optionally inserted into the cigarette receptacle of the electrical lighter or placed at the exit thereof to absorb, attract and/or catalytically break down the thermally liberated condensates. The sleeve also directs a desired flow path for drawn air within an electrical lighter toward the cigarette.

公开(公告)号：AU1799499A

公开(公告)日：1999-06-16

申请号：AU1799499

申请日：1998-12-04

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  SCOREY CLIVE ,  SIKKA VINOD K ,  DEEVI SEETHARAMA C ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER ,  LILLY A CLIFTON JR ,  GERMAN RANDALL M

IPC: B22F1/02 ,  B22F3/12 ,  B22F3/18 ,  B22F5/00 ,  B22F9/08 ,  C21D8/02 ,  C22C1/04 ,  C22C33/02 ,  C22C38/00 ,  C22C38/34 ,  B22F3/00 ,  C21D7/02

Abstract: A powder metallurgical process of preparing a sheet from a powder having an intermetallic alloy composition such as an iron, nickel or titanium aluminide. The sheet can be manufactured into electrical resistance heating elements having improved room temperature ductility, electrical resistivity, cyclic fatigue resistance, high temperature oxidation resistance, low and high temperature strength, and/or resistance to high temperature sagging. The iron aluminide has an entirely ferritic microstructure which is free of austenite and can include, in weight %, 4 to 32% Al, and optional additions such as =0.05% Zr

公开(公告)号：AU9786598A

公开(公告)日：1999-05-10

申请号：AU9786598

申请日：1998-10-14

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： COUNTS MARY ELLEN ,  CROWE WILLIAM J ,  FELTER JOHN L ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER S ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  HAYES PATRICK H ,  HOUCK WILLIE G ,  NUNNALLY H NEAL

IPC: F23Q7/00 ,  A24F47/00 ,  H05B3/10

Abstract: A novel electrical smoking system and method of establishing resistance to draw upon a cigarette while smoking a cigarette in an electrical smoking system comprising the step of operatively interposing a frit between a source of ambient air and the cigarette.

公开(公告)号：PL328233A1

公开(公告)日：1999-01-18

申请号：PL32823397

申请日：1997-11-25

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： ADAMS JOHN M ,  CROWE WILLIAM J ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER S ,  FOURNIER JAY A ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  HOUCK WILLIE G JR ,  LOSEE DONALD B ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  NAWORAL JOHN D ,  NUNNALLY H NEAL ,  PAINE JOHN B III ,  RAYMOND WYNN R ,  RIPLEY ROBERT L ,  SEEMAN JEFFREY I ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M ,  WATKINS MICHAEL L

IPC: A24F47/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for cleaning an electrical lighter are provided. A sleeve, e.g., ceramic or metal, surrounds the heater fixture, and a resistive heating element is in thermal proximity with the sleeve. The resistive heating element is either a dedicated element or the cigarette heating elements. The sleeve serves as a aerosol barrier and condensate accumulator to protect other components. Periodically, e.g., substantially contemporaneously with a battery recharge, the heating element is activated to thermally liberate condensates deposited on the sleeve during smoking and also heats, and thereby cleans, other components. Also, a cleaning element is optionally inserted into the cigarette receptacle of the electrical lighter or placed at the exit thereof to absorb, attract and/or catalytically break down the thermally liberated condensates. The sleeve also directs a desired flow path for drawn air within an electrical lighter toward the cigarette.

公开(公告)号：ID20420A

公开(公告)日：1998-12-10

申请号：ID980051

申请日：1997-11-25

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： ADAMS JOHN M ,  CROWE WILLIAM J ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER S ,  FOURNIER JAY A ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  HOUCK WILLIE G JR ,  LOSEE DONALD B ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  NAWORAL JOHN D ,  NUNNALLY H NEAL ,  PAINE JOHN B III ,  RAYMOND WYNN R ,  RIPLEY ROBERT L ,  SEEMAN JEFFREY I ,  SPRINGKEL FRANCIS M ,  WATKINS MICHAEL L

IPC: A24F47/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for cleaning an electrical lighter are provided. A sleeve, e.g., ceramic or metal, surrounds the heater fixture, and a resistive heating element is in thermal proximity with the sleeve. The resistive heating element is either a dedicated element or the cigarette heating elements. The sleeve serves as a aerosol barrier and condensate accumulator to protect other components. Periodically, e.g., substantially contemporaneously with a battery recharge, the heating element is activated to thermally liberate condensates deposited on the sleeve during smoking and also heats, and thereby cleans, other components. Also, a cleaning element is optionally inserted into the cigarette receptacle of the electrical lighter or placed at the exit thereof to absorb, attract and/or catalytically break down the thermally liberated condensates. The sleeve also directs a desired flow path for drawn air within an electrical lighter toward the cigarette.

公开(公告)号：AU5357298A

公开(公告)日：1998-06-22

申请号：AU5357298

申请日：1997-11-25

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： ADAMS JOHN M ,  CROWE WILLIAM J ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER S ,  FOURNIER JAY A ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  HOUCK WILLIE G ,  LOSEE DONALD B ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  NAWORAL JOHN D ,  NUNNALLY H NEAL ,  PAINE JOHN B III ,  RAYMOND WYNN R ,  RIPLEY ROBERT L ,  SEEMAN JEFFREY I ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M ,  WATKINS MICHAEL L

IPC: A24F47/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for cleaning an electrical lighter are provided. A sleeve, e.g., ceramic or metal, surrounds the heater fixture, and a resistive heating element is in thermal proximity with the sleeve. The resistive heating element is either a dedicated element or the cigarette heating elements. The sleeve serves as a aerosol barrier and condensate accumulator to protect other components. Periodically, e.g., substantially contemporaneously with a battery recharge, the heating element is activated to thermally liberate condensates deposited on the sleeve during smoking and also heats, and thereby cleans, other components. Also, a cleaning element is optionally inserted into the cigarette receptacle of the electrical lighter or placed at the exit thereof to absorb, attract and/or catalytically break down the thermally liberated condensates. The sleeve also directs a desired flow path for drawn air within an electrical lighter toward the cigarette.

公开(公告)号：PL324378A1

公开(公告)日：1998-05-25

申请号：PL32437896

申请日：1996-04-19

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： BAGGETT JAMES D JR ,  CLARK DAVID A ,  COUNTS MARY ELLEN ,  COWLING PATRICK C ,  HOUCK WILLIE G JR ,  MOORE MICHAEL A ,  SANDERSON WESLEY G ,  UHL RICHARD G ,  WATKINS MICHAEL L ,  WRENN SUSAN E ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER S ,  HAYES PATRICK H ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  NICHOLS WALTER A ,  SHARPE DAVID E

IPC: H05B3/00 ,  A24F47/00

Abstract: A cigarette (23) comprises a tobacco rod having filled and unfilled portions arranged so that electrical heater elements (31) may overlap both portions. The rod includes a tubular tobacco web. The web is constructed by converting tobacco feedstock into a continuous sheet of tobacco web and converting the continuous sheet of tobacco web into one or ore bobbins of tobacco web suitable for automated manufacture of cigarettes. A heater (25) comprises a supporting hub and electrically resistive heater blades (37) defining a receptacle (27) for an inserted cigarette (23). Each blade comprises first and second heater blade legs each having a first end and a second end, and a connecting section connecting the second end of the first leg and the first end of the second leg. The blades (37) are heated by a resistive heating circuit and heat the inserted cigarette (23). The legs are separated by a gap to permit entrainment of flavour substances upon drawing.

公开(公告)号：AU4819197A

公开(公告)日：1998-05-15

申请号：AU4819197

申请日：1997-10-21

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： WATKINS MICHAEL L ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R

IPC: A24F47/00

Abstract: A novel photonic-electronic smoking system comprising a cigarette and a photonic operated electronic lighter, together with methodologies of smoking a cigarette, the lighter comprising a receptacle for removably receiving a cigarette; a photonic source; an optical train establishing a plurality of optical pathways from said photonic source to a plurality of locations at the received cigarette; a source of electrical power; a puff sensor responsive to a drawing action upon a cigarette received by said receptacle; and a controller responsive to said puff sensor for controllably communicating said source of electrical power with said photonic source so that upon drawing action upon the received cigarette, the photonic source discharges along said optical pathway to heat a region of said cigarette adjacent at least one of said locations.

公开(公告)号：NO974712D0

公开(公告)日：1997-10-10

申请号：NO974712

申请日：1997-10-10

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： BAGGETT JR JAMES D ,  CLARK DAVID A ,  COUNTS MARY ELLEN ,  COWLING PATRICK C ,  HOUCK JR WILLIE GRAY ,  MOORE MICHAEL G ,  SANDERSON WESLEY G ,  UHL RICHARD G ,  WATKINS MICHAEL L ,  WRENN SUSAN E ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER S ,  HAYES PATRICK H ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  NICHOLS WALTER A ,  SHARPE DAVID E

IPC: H05B3/00 ,  A24F

Abstract: A cigarette (23) comprises a tobacco rod having filled and unfilled portions arranged so that electrical heater elements (31) may overlap both portions. The rod includes a tubular tobacco web. The web is constructed by converting tobacco feedstock into a continuous sheet of tobacco web and converting the continuous sheet of tobacco web into one or ore bobbins of tobacco web suitable for automated manufacture of cigarettes. A heater (25) comprises a supporting hub and electrically resistive heater blades (37) defining a receptacle (27) for an inserted cigarette (23). Each blade comprises first and second heater blade legs each having a first end and a second end, and a connecting section connecting the second end of the first leg and the first end of the second leg. The blades (37) are heated by a resistive heating circuit and heat the inserted cigarette (23). The legs are separated by a gap to permit entrainment of flavour substances upon drawing.

公开(公告)号：AU678110B2

公开(公告)日：1997-05-15

申请号：AU2207795

申请日：1995-04-06

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  FLEISCHHAUER GRIER S ,  DEEVI SEETHARAMA C ,  HIGGINS CHARLES T ,  HAYES PATRICK H ,  HERMAN HERBERT ,  GANSERT ROBERT V ,  COLLINS ALFRED L ,  KEEN BILLY J JR ,  LAROY BERNARD C ,  LILLY A CLINTON JR

IPC: A24F47/00 ,  H05B3/00

Abstract: A cylindrical tube is provided of a mechanically strong and flexible electrical conductor such as a metal and has a plurality of separated regions. An electrically insulating layer such as a ceramic is applied on the outer surface except for one exposed portion. Electrically resistive heaters are then applied to the insulated regions and are electrically connected at one end to the underlying electrical conducting region. The electrical conductor is connected to the negative terminal of a power source. The other end of all the heaters are adapted to be connected to the positive terminal of the source. Accordingly, an electrically resistive heating circuit is formed wherein the tube serves as a common for all of the heating elements. The tubular heater can comprise an exposed end hub with a plurality of blades extending therefrom. Each blade can have an individual heater deposited thereon. Alternatively, every other blade can have a heater deposited thereon. The blades having no heater function as barriers to minimize outward escape of generated vapors. These barrier blades also function as heat sinks for the heaters on adjacent blades.