Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heater suitable for use in an electric smoking system. SOLUTION: The heater (39) for use in a smoking system having an electric energy source for heating a cigarette has a plurality of electric resister heater blades (121) which form a container for receiving the inserted cigarette and are extended along the inserted cigarette; each blade has the first heater blade leg (116A) having the first and second ends, the second heater blade leg (116B) having the first and second ends (122), and a connection section (118) for connecting the second ends of the first heater blade legs to the first ends of the second heater blade legs; the first and second heater blade legs of each heater blade are separated through each gap (125); the first ends of the first heater blade legs are disposed to electrically contact with an electric source; the first heater blade leg, the connection section and the heater blade leg are combined to form each resister heating route; each electric heater blade is heated along the first and second blades to heat the inserted cigarette; the first ends of the first blades have a common connector. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tobacco web suitable for the use in an electrical cigarette system. SOLUTION: The tobacco web wound so as to form a cylindrical tobacco rod 60 for a cigarette 23 operated by an electric cigar lighter 25 (figure 2) includes a base web 68 and a tobacco material 70 arranged along the first side of the base web. The base web comprises a combination of a tobacco fiber with a cellulosic fiber combined in a ratio of from about 2:1 to 4:1. The base web has a basic weight within the range of about 35 to 45 g/cm 2 , and the tobacco material has at least twice of the basic weight of the base web. The tobacco material contains finely pulverized tobacco and an extracted tobacco solid material in a ratio of from about 3:1 to 9:1, and further contains a humectant in a level of about 5 to 20 wt.% of the material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
An electrical smoking system (21) comprising a housing (31) having front and rear housing portions (33 and 35), a reusable lighter (25), a filter cigarette (23), a cigarette receiver (27) which is open at a front end portion (29) of the lighter (25), an indicator (51) to indicate number of puffs remaining in a smoke of the cigarette (23), and a cigarette detector (57) to detect the presence of a cigarette.
Abstract:
An electrical smoking system (21) comprising a cigarette (23) and an electric lighter (25), wherein the cigarette (23) comprises a tubular tobacco mat (66) partially filled with material tobacco (80) so as to define a filled tobacco rod portion (60) and an unfilled tobacco rod portion (90). The cigarette (23) and the lighter (25) are mutually arranged so that when the cigarette (23) is received in the lighter (25), the electrical heater element (37) of the lighter (25) at least partially superposes at least a portion of the filled tobacco rod portion (60). The cigarette (23) and the lighter (25) are also mutually arranged so that when the cigarette (23) is received in the lighter (25), the free end (15) of the cigarette (23) is occluded. The cigarette (23) includes a zone of perforations (12, 14) at a location along the filled tobacco rod portion (60), with the cigarette being free of perforations along the unfilled tobacco rod portion (90).
Abstract:
A cigarette (23) comprises a tobacco rod having filled and unfilled portions arranged so that electrical heater elements (37) 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.
Abstract:
In the present invention, there is disclosed an electrical heater for use in a smoking article having a source of electrical energy for heating tobacco flavor medium, the heater comprising: a) a substrate layer (300) of electrically conducting material; b) an electrically insulating layer (310) deposited on at least a portion of said substrate layer (300); and c) an electrically resistive heater element (122) deposited on said electrically insulating layer (310). A first end of said heater element (122) is electrically connected to said electrically conducting substrate (300), wherein a second end of said heater element (122) and a portion of said heater element (122) between the first and second ends of said heater element (122) are electrically insulated from said electrically conducting substrate layer (300) by said electrically insulating layer (310). Said substrate layer (300) and said second end of said heater element (122) are adapted to be electrically connected to the source (37) of electrical energy to heat said heating element (122). A process for producing the above-described electrical heater comprises the following steps: 1) providing an electrically conducting material; 2) forming (a) a plurality of blades from the electrically conducting material having gaps therebetween, and (b) a common end section, the blades extending from the common end section; 3) forming an electrical insulating layer (310) on at least one of the plurality of electrically conducting blades; 4) forming an electrically resistive heater on the formed electrical insulating layer (310) in such a manner that a first end of the heater is in electrical contact with the at least one electrically conducting blade; 5) forming an electrical contact on a second end of the formed heater; and 6) placing the plurality of blades and the common end section into a cylindrical receptacle to receive an inserted cigarette (23).
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.
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.
Abstract:
An electrical smoking system comprising a cigarette and an electric lighter, wherein the cigarette comprises a tubular tobacco mat partially filled with material tobacco so as to define a filled tobacco rod portion and an unfilled tobacco rod portion. The cigarette and the lighter are mutually arranged so that when the cigarette is received in the lighter, the electrical heater element of the lighter at least partially superposes at least a portion of the filled tobacco rod portion. The cigarette and the lighter are also mutually arranged so that when the cigarette is received in the lighter, the free end of the cigarette is occluded. The cigarette includes a zone of perforations at a location along the filled tobacco rod portion, with the cigarette being free of perforations along the unfilled tobacco rod portion. An apparatus for perforating a cigarette which can be smoked in an electrical smoking device includes a drum link-up assembly and a laser perforating apparatus. The apparatus can be used in a method of perforating a tobacco rod of the cigarette prior to assembly of the tobacco rod to a filter rod via tipping paper. In the method, a tobacco rod is supplied to the drum link-up assembly wherein the tobacco rod is moved from a combining apparatus to a tipping apparatus which attaches the tobacco rod to a filter rod by tipping paper. In making the cigarettes with a tobacco rod and a filter rod, a combining apparatus forms a continuous tobacco rod which is cut into 2-up tobacco rods.
Abstract:
A removable cigarette (224') is manufactured for use in a smoking system which includes a lighter which has electrical heating means disposed in permanent cavity for delivering a flavored tobacco response to a smoker. To manufacture the cigarette a carrier web (259') is provided which has regions (261) of tobacco flavor material. Adhesive regions (261A) are applied from an adhesive applying station (327) to the surface of the carrier web (259') to form spaced regions of adhesive (261A) in between spaced regions of flavor material (261). A filter station (329) attaches filters (333,335) to the adhesive regions (261A) and a wrapping station (337) wraps the web (259') around the filters (333,335) to form a continuous rod of alternating regions of filter and tobacco flavor material. Finally, individual removable cigarettes (224') are formed by severing the continuous rod at a severing station (339).