公开(公告)号：BR9707310A

公开(公告)日：1999-11-23

申请号：BR9707310

申请日：1997-11-25

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： ADAMS JOHN M ,  WATKINS MICHAEL L ,  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 ,  RAYMOND WYNN R ,  RIPLEY ROBERT L ,  SEEMAN JEFFREY I ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M

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：CA2244210A1

公开(公告)日：1998-06-04

申请号：CA2244210

申请日：1997-11-25

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

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

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 (210) is in thermal proximity with the sleeve. The resistive heating element (210) is either a dedicated element or the cigarette heating elements (210). The sleeve serves as an aerosol barrier and condensate accumulator to protect other components. Periodically, e.g., substantially contemporaneously with a battery recharge, the heating element (210) 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：NO302272B1

公开(公告)日：1998-02-16

申请号：NO950330

申请日：1995-01-27

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： COUNTS MARY ELLEN ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  SMITH ULYSSES ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M ,  UTSCH FRANCIS V ,  LOSEE JR D BRUCE ,  RAYMOND WYNN R

IPC: A24D20060101 ,  A24D1/18 ,  A24F47/00

公开(公告)号：AT114107T

公开(公告)日：1994-12-15

申请号：AT90312658

申请日：1990-11-20

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： DEEVI SEETHARAMA C ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M

IPC: H05B3/10 ,  A24F47/00

Abstract: A heating element for use within a smoking device which, without burning, heats a flavor-generating medium within the device to produce an aerosol, vapor, or flavor, which the consumer may inhale. More particularly, an electrically-powered heating element having a plurality of discrete resistive heating segments, only one of which is active at any given time. In a preferred embodiment, the heating element is contained within the device so that the individual heating segments of the element are adjacent to a flavor-generating medium. As each segment of the heating element is provided with power, the flavor-generating medium adjacent to that segment is heated, but is not burned. This heating causes the flavor-generating medium to produce a flavor, aerosol, or vapor, which the consumer of the device may inhale.

公开(公告)号：NO178519B

公开(公告)日：1996-01-02

申请号：NO905149

申请日：1990-11-28

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： DEEVI SEETHARAMA C ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M

IPC: H05B3/10 ,  A24F47/00 ,  H05B3/26 ,  A61M15/06

Abstract: A heating element for use within a smoking device which, without burning, heats a flavor-generating medium within the device to produce an aerosol, vapor, or flavor, which the consumer may inhale. More particularly, an electrically-powered heating element having a plurality of discrete resistive heating segments, only one of which is active at any given time. In a preferred embodiment, the heating element is contained within the device so that the individual heating segments of the element are adjacent to a flavor-generating medium. As each segment of the heating element is provided with power, the flavor-generating medium adjacent to that segment is heated, but is not burned. This heating causes the flavor-generating medium to produce a flavor, aerosol, or vapor, which the consumer of the device may inhale.

公开(公告)号：DE69017371T2

公开(公告)日：1995-10-12

申请号：DE69017371

申请日：1990-11-20

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： COUNTS MARY E ,  HAJALIGOL MOHAMMAD R ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  SMITH ULYSSES ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M ,  UTSCH FRANCIS V ,  LOSEE JR D BRUCE ,  RAYMOND WYNN R

IPC: A24F47/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for releasing flavor components from a flavor-generating medium using an electric heating element are provided. A non-combustion flavor-generating article (10) uses electrical energy to power a heating element (14) which heats tobacco or other flavorants (12) in a flavor generating medium. The flavor-generating medium is formed into a packed bed. Energy delivered to the heating element is regulated to maintain the flavor- generating medium at a relatively constant operating temperature to ensure a relatively constant release of flavor and to ensure that release of flavor components is due to heating, rather than burning of the flavor generating medium.

公开(公告)号：DE69014195D1

公开(公告)日：1994-12-22

申请号：DE69014195

申请日：1990-11-20

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： DEEVI SEETHARAMA C ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M

IPC: H05B3/10 ,  A24F47/00

Abstract: A heating element for use within a smoking device which, without burning, heats a flavor-generating medium within the device to produce an aerosol, vapor, or flavor, which the consumer may inhale. More particularly, an electrically-powered heating element having a plurality of discrete resistive heating segments, only one of which is active at any given time. In a preferred embodiment, the heating element is contained within the device so that the individual heating segments of the element are adjacent to a flavor-generating medium. As each segment of the heating element is provided with power, the flavor-generating medium adjacent to that segment is heated, but is not burned. This heating causes the flavor-generating medium to produce a flavor, aerosol, or vapor, which the consumer of the device may inhale.

公开(公告)号：AU6762190A

公开(公告)日：1991-06-06

申请号：AU6762190

申请日：1990-11-30

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： DEEVI SEETHARAMA C ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M

IPC: H05B3/10 ,  A24F47/00 ,  A24D1/00 ,  H05B3/26

Abstract: A heating element for use within a smoking device which, without burning, heats a flavor-generating medium within the device to produce an aerosol, vapor, or flavor, which the consumer may inhale. More particularly, an electrically-powered heating element having a plurality of discrete resistive heating segments, only one of which is active at any given time. In a preferred embodiment, the heating element is contained within the device so that the individual heating segments of the element are adjacent to a flavor-generating medium. As each segment of the heating element is provided with power, the flavor-generating medium adjacent to that segment is heated, but is not burned. This heating causes the flavor-generating medium to produce a flavor, aerosol, or vapor, which the consumer of the device may inhale.

公开(公告)号：AU6762090A

公开(公告)日：1991-06-06

申请号：AU6762090

申请日：1990-11-30

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： COUNTS MARY E ,  MORGAN CONSTANCE H ,  SMITH ULYSSES ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M ,  UTSCH FRANCIS V

IPC: A24F47/00 ,  A24D1/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for releasing flavor components from a flavor-generating medium using an electric heating element are provided. A non-combustion flavor-generating article (10) uses electrical energy to power a heating element (14) which heats tobacco or other flavorants (12) in a flavor generating medium. The flavor-generating medium is formed into a packed bed. Energy delivered to the heating element is regulated to maintain the flavor- generating medium at a relatively constant operating temperature to ensure a relatively constant release of flavor and to ensure that release of flavor components is due to heating, rather than burning of the flavor generating medium.

公开(公告)号：CA2031226A1

公开(公告)日：1991-06-02

申请号：CA2031226

申请日：1990-11-30

Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PROD

Inventor： DEEVI SEETHARAMA C ,  SPRINKEL FRANCIS M

IPC: H05B3/10 ,  A24F47/00

Abstract: A heating element for use within a smoking device which, without burning, heats a flavor-generating medium within the device to produce an aerosol, vapor, or flavor, which the consumer may inhale. More particularly, an electrically-powered heating element having a plurality of discrete resistive heating segments, only one of which is active at any given time. In a preferred embodiment, the heating element is contained within the device so that the individual heating segments of the element are adjacent to a flavor-generating medium. As each segment of the heating element is provided with power, the flavor-generating medium adjacent to that segment is heated, but is not burned. This heating causes the flavor-generating medium to produce a flavor, aerosol, or vapor, which the consumer of the device may inhale.