Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes an aerosol forming substrate accommodation portion including an aerosol forming substrate and configured to generate heat by a surface plasmon resonance, and a light source configured to irradiate light toward the aerosol forming substrate accommodation portion. The light irradiated by the light source may cause the surface plasmon resonance.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 9, 2023
Publication date:
November 14, 2024
Applicant:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Wonkyeong LEE, Paul Joon SUNWOO, Min Kyu KIM, Moon Sang LEE
Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the disclosure includes a heating assembly configured to surround a first insertion space that is open at an upper portion and at a lower portion; a lower pipe disposed below the heating assembly to be parallel to the heating assembly and to support a lower end of the heating assembly; an upper pipe configured to support an upper end of the heating assembly and extending downwards to cover a circumference of the heating assembly, the upper pipe having a circumference overlapping a circumference of the lower pipe along a radial direction; a light-transmitting portion located on one of the lower pipe or the upper pipe at a position corresponding to the overlap; and a light-absorbing portion located on the other one of the lower pipe or the upper pipe at the position corresponding to the overlap and integrally coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the light-transmitting portion.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 14, 2022
Publication date:
November 14, 2024
Applicant:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Taehun KIM, Jueon PARK, Hyungjin JUNG, Jungho HAN
Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes an accommodation space into which an aerosol generating article is inserted, a heater configured to heat the aerosol generating article, an insertion detection sensor configured to detect whether the aerosol generating article has been inserted into the accommodation space, and a controller configured to provide a user with a notification through an output unit when it is detected that the aerosol generating article inserted into the accommodation space has been moved from the accommodation space through the insertion detection sensor during a heating operation of the heater. The heater maintains the heating operation of heating the aerosol generating article even while the notification is being provided.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aerosol-generating material including a reconstituted tobacco leaf slurry. wherein the reconstituted tobacco leaf slurry contains sugar crystals containing a gas therein, and provides a method for preparing the aerosol-generating material and an aerosol-generating article including the aerosol-generating material.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a sheet for a smoking article, and more particularly, to a method for manufacturing a sheet for a smoking article, the method comprising the steps of: putting a tobacco material into an aqueous solvent, and soaking and pressurizing it to separate a solid part and a liquid part (S1); removing the liquid part, forming a sheet with the solid part, and then drying and pulverizing the sheet (S2); preparing a slurry by mixing pulp with the pulverized sheet (S3); and injecting the slurry to form a sheet (S4), wherein the sheet has a reduced specific component, and the specific component includes one or more selected from the group consisting of nicotine and nitrate. A smoking article comprising the sheet manufactured by the above manufacturing method is characterized by having a reduced specific component and excellent flavor.
Abstract: In order to heat an aerosol generating substrate, an eddy current is generated in a susceptor of the aerosol generating substrate by generating a synthesized alternating current (AC) having different frequencies and supplying the synthesized AC to a coil wound around the aerosol generating substrate.
Abstract: An inhaler includes a housing having one surface, the other surface opposite to the one surface, and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the one surface and the other surface, a mouthpiece which is disposed on the one side of the housing, a reservoir which is disposed inside the housing and stores an inhalable composition, a nozzle which extends from the mouthpiece to the reservoir, and a needle valve which is movably disposed inside the nozzle, when a suction force is not applied to the mouthpiece, the needle valve is maintained in a first state in which the nozzle is closed, and when a suction force is applied through the mouthpiece, the needle valve is switched into a second state in which the nozzle is opened.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 20, 2023
Publication date:
November 14, 2024
Applicant:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Tae Heon KIM, Jae Hyun KIM, Mi Jeong LEE, Yongmi JUNG, Eun Mi JEOUNG, Seung Kyu HAN, Minseok JEONG, Tae Young CHUNG
Abstract: An inhaler includes a casing including a first end wall, a second end wall formed opposite to the first end wall, and a side wall formed between the first end wall and the second end wall, a mouthpiece disposed adjacent to the first end wall of the casing, and a cartridge disposed adjacent to the mouthpiece, in which the cartridge may include a rotation screw.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a woven fabric filter including a flavored sheet and a smoking article including the same, and more particularly, to a woven fabric filter including a flavored sheet fiber that is a fiber obtained by cutting a flavored sheet and that includes a cellulose-based polymer, a plasticizer, and a flavoring material, and to a smoking article including the same.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 11, 2022
Publication date:
November 14, 2024
Applicant:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Ki-Jin AHN, Dong Hyun KIM, Ick Joong KIM, Kyung Bin JUNG, Eunmi JEOUNG
Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a heater configured to generate aerosols by heating an aerosol generating material, a power supply configured to supply power to the heater, and a controller configured to control operations of the power supply and the heater, wherein the heater includes a sheet including a first heating region and a second heating region, a first track that is heated by receiving power and arranged in the first heating region, and a second track that is heated by receiving power and arranged in the second heating region, and the controller is further configured to control the power supply to supply power to the second track when a predetermined time has elapsed after starting to supply power to the first track.
Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a medium rod and a filter rod aligned along a longitudinal direction of the aerosol generating device. The medium rod includes a medium portion that accommodates a medium and at least one airflow path formed through the medium portion in the longitudinal direction.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 8, 2023
Publication date:
November 14, 2024
Applicant:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Jae-Seong JEONG, Donghyun KIM, Yong Hwan KIM, Byeongyong AHN, Jung Lae LEE
Abstract: The present invention provides an aerosol-generating article including a first aerosol-generating substrate portion, a second aerosol-generating substrate portion, and a filter portion containing nicotine, and an aerosol-generating device comprising the same, wherein the second aerosol-generating substrate portion includes an absorber impregnated with a liquid aerosol-generating composition.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 29, 2019
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
In Su Park, Dong Kyun Ko, Sang Won Choi, Sun Hwan Jung, Eun Mi Jeoung
Abstract: An aerosol generating system includes a holder including: a heater configured to heat an aerosol generating article; a holder battery configured to supply electric power to the heater; and a holder processor configured to measure a remaining charge value of the holder battery; and a cradle detachably coupled to the holder and including: a cradle battery having a greater battery capacity than the holder battery; and a cradle processor configured to: identify whether the holder is coupled to the cradle, receive a remaining charge value of the holder battery from the holder processor based on the holder being coupled to the cradle, and control the cradle battery to supply electric power to the heater based on the received remaining charge value being greater than or equal to a preset reference value.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 16, 2020
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Seung Won Lee, Wang Seop Lim, Yong Hwan Kim, Sung Wook Yoon, Dae Nam Han
Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a first cartridge configured to accommodate a first smokable material and comprising a delivery hole through which an aerosol generated from the first smokable material is delivered; a second cartridge comprising a plurality of chambers for accommodating a second smokable material through which the aerosol delivered from the first cartridge passes, and movably coupled to the first cartridge such that a position of the second cartridge with respect to the first cartridge is changeable; a magnetic body arranged in one of the second cartridge and the first cartridge; and an electromagnet arranged in the other of the second cartridge and the first cartridge to face the magnetic body, and configured to generate magnetism toward the magnetic body such that one of the plurality of chambers is aligned with the delivery hole to form a flow path to a mouthpiece.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 2, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Won Kyeong Lee, Min Kyu Kim, Jong Sub Lee, Byung Sung Cho
Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of coils which have different numbers of windings and generate an alternating magnetic field when alternating current is applied; a susceptor for generating an aerosol by heating adjacent aerosol-generating substrates using heat generated through the alternating magnetic fields generated from the plurality of coils; and a controller for controlling a predetermined alternating current to be supplied to each of the plurality of coils, wherein the controller controls a first portion and a second portion of the susceptor to be heated differentially by alternating current supplied to the plurality of coils.
Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes: a liquid storage configured to store a liquid material; an aerosol generating space configured to accommodate a solid material including a tobacco material and a foamable material such that an aerosol is generated as the solid material comes in contact with the liquid material in the aerosol generating space; a liquid transfer tube connected to the liquid storage and the aerosol generating space such that the liquid material moves from the liquid storage to the aerosol generating space; and a mouthpiece configured to discharge the aerosol generated in the aerosol generating space, according to a user's inhalation.
Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes an aerosol delivering device including a first cartridge in which a first material for generating an aerosol is accommodated, and a second cartridge rotatably coupled to the first cartridge, configured to accommodate a second material, and arranged such that an aerosol generated from the first material passes through the second material, and an atomizer that is connected to the first cartridge and configured to generate the aerosol by atomizing the first material and deliver the aerosol to the second cartridge.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 1, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 12, 2024
Assignee:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Jong Sub Lee, Min Kyu Kim, Won Kyeong Lee, Byung Sung Cho
Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating device including a cartridge comprising: an atomizer heating an aerosol generating material to generate aerosol; a mouthpiece through which the generated aerosol is released to outside; a main body accommodating the cartridge; and a sensor configured to detect release of the aerosol to the outside; wherein a first air channel is formed between the cartridge and the main body and guides external air introduced through an air inlet to the mouthpiece through the atomizer, and wherein a second air channel is formed in the main body such that the first air channel and the second air channel are in fluid communication, and wherein the sensor detects the release of the aerosol to the outside based on a change in air flow rate or air pressure of the second air channel.
Abstract: An aerosol generator includes a heater for heating a cigarette accommodated in the aerosol generator, a battery for supplying electric power to the heater, and a controller configured to: control the electric power supplied to the heater to increase a temperature of the heater to a reference temperature or greater, the reference temperature being set to be suitable for generating aerosol from the cigarette, set a target temperature of the heater, control the electric power supplied to the heater based on the target temperature such that the temperature of the heater is maintained at the reference temperature, and adjust the target temperature to compensate for the temperature of the heater when the temperature of the heater decreases below the reference temperature.
Abstract: An aerosol-generating article according to one aspect of the present disclosure may include a tobacco medium portion, a filter portion disposed to be spaced apart from the tobacco medium portion, and a tubular cooling portion disposed between the tobacco medium portion and the filter portion. A tobacco medium may be included in a wall constituting the cooling portion.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 13, 2022
Publication date:
November 7, 2024
Applicant:
KT&G CORPORATION
Inventors:
Seok Su JANG, Dae Nam HAN, Dong Sung KIM, Yong Hwan KIM, Seung Won LEE