Abstract: A cleaning tool for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the cleaning tool including an elongate body having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, the distal end portion defining a recess configured to receive a heating element of an aerosol-generating device, the recess extending from an opening in a distal end face of the elongate body towards the proximal end portion of the elongate body, the distal end portion of the elongate body being provided with at least one protrusion inwardly projecting into the recess, and the elongate body further including a scraping surface at the distal end face of the elongate body.

Abstract: An inductive heating assembly is provided for generating an aerosol from an aerosol-forming liquid, the assembly including: a ring-shaped liquid retention element configured to hold and to transport the aerosol-forming liquid; and a ring-shaped susceptor element coaxially arranged at an axial end face of the ring-shaped liquid retention element and being configured to heat the aerosol-forming liquid within the ring-shaped liquid retention element, the ring-shaped susceptor element including an inductively heatable susceptor material exclusively confined within an inner ring portion having an outer radial extension of at most 50 percent of an outer radial extension of the ring-shaped liquid retention element. An aerosol-generating article including the inductive heating assembly is also provided.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a cavity configured to receive an aerosol-forming substrate; an electrical heater configured to heat the substrate when the aerosol-forming substrate is received within the cavity; a power supply; and a controller configured to: control a supply of power from the power supply to the heater during a first time period and a second time period after the first time period, determine a rate of increase in temperature of the heater during the first time period by determining a time taken for a temperature of the heater to increase from a first predetermined temperature to a second predetermined temperature during the first time period, and adjust the supply of power from the power supply to the heater during the second time period based on the determined rate of increase in temperature during the first time period.

Abstract: An inductively heatable aerosol-forming rod for an aerosol-generating article is provided, including one cylindrical core portion including a first aerosol-forming substrate; at least one elongate susceptor laterally abutting the cylindrical core portion in a non-bonded manner along a longitudinal axis of the aerosol-forming rod; and a sleeve portion arranged around the cylindrical core portion and the susceptor, the sleeve including at least one of a filler material and a second aerosol-forming substrate. A shaping device for manufacturing the inductively heatable aerosol-forming rods is also provided, the shaping device including a core-forming device, a sleeve-forming device, and a longitudinal guide.

Abstract: A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the cartridge including: a liquid storage portion configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; and a heater assembly including an electrical heating element configured to heat the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol, a capillary body configured to convey the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to the electrical heating element, the electrical heating element being disposed at a porous end surface of the capillary body, and electrical contacts connected to the electrical heating element, each electrical contact being disposed at opposite sides of the porous end surface, such that the electrical heating element extends between the electrical contacts and forms an electrical connection therebetween. An aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating device and the cartridge is also provided.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing; a cavity; an aperture at least partially defined by the housing and being positioned at an end of the cavity for insertion of the article into the cavity through the aperture; a cover element arranged for movement relative to the housing between a closed position partially covering the aperture and an open position partially uncovered; a sensor including a Hall effect sensor to provide an electrical signal indicative of a position of the cover element; an electrical heater to heat the article within the cavity and extending around an outer surface of an article received within the cavity; and an indicator element for movement relative to the sensor when moved between the closed and the open positions, the signal being determined by a position of the indicator element relative to the sensor, the indicator element including a magnetic material.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing having an aperture to receive an aerosol-generating article; and a cover element configured for movement with respect to the housing between closed and open positions, in which, in the closed position, the cover element at least partially covers the aperture and, in the open position, the aperture is at least partially uncovered, the cover element forming a cover element cavity, a guide element protruding from the housing and being received in the cover element cavity, the guide element including a leg extending from an inside of the housing to an outside of the housing, and an elastic element engaging the leg inside the housing. An aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating device, a method for closing an aperture in the housing of the aerosol-generating device, and an assembly method for a cover element on the housing of the aerosol-generating device, are also provided.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: an inner part having a first surface; a housing part at least partially defining an outer appearance of the aerosol-generating device and having a second surface facing towards the first surface, the housing part having an opening; and an adhesive tape adhered to both the first surface and the second surface fully around a circumference surrounding the opening of the housing part. A method for assembling an aerosol-generating device, and a double-sided adhesive tape configured to seal a space between an outer part of an aerosol-generating device and a surface of an inner part of the aerosol-generating device circumferentially around an opening in the outer part, are also provided.

Abstract: A method for assembling an aerosol-generating device is provided, the method including: positioning a housing part at a body of the aerosol-generating device; and fixing the housing part to the body with at least one fixing element that extends through an attachment opening of the housing part, whereby an elastomeric seal is compressed, the elastomeric seal being compressed between the housing part and the body, and the at least one fixing element penetrating through an opening in the elastomeric seal. An aerosol-generating device, and a method of fixing a housing part at a body of an aerosol-generating device, are also provided.

Abstract: There is described an isolated 3-dimensional liver spheroid wherein said spheroid has: increased ATP content as compared to a 3-dimensional liver spheroid cultured in Complete William's E medium alone; the same or increased activity of cytochrome P450 1A1 and cytochrome P450 1B1 as compared to a 3-dimensional liver spheroid cultured in Complete William's E medium alone; and increased albumin secretion as compared to a 3-dimensional liver spheroid cultured in William's E medium alone.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a first atomiser assembly including a first mesh element defining a plurality of first nozzles each having a minimum diameter of equal to or less than 2.5 micrometres; a second atomiser assembly including a second mesh element defining a plurality of second nozzles each having a minimum diameter of between 3 micrometres and 10 micrometres; a first device connector configured to receive a first liquid reservoir and to supply a first liquid from the first liquid reservoir to the first atomiser assembly; and a second device connector configured to receive a second liquid reservoir and to supply a second liquid from the second liquid reservoir to the second atomiser assembly.

Abstract: A composition is provided, including a gelling agent forming a solid medium, glycerol dispersed in the solid medium, and nicotine dispersed in the glycerol, the composition being a stable gel phase.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating arrangement for generating an aerosol from an aerosol-forming liquid is provided, the arrangement including a liquid reservoir for storing aerosol-forming liquid and a capillary liquid conveyer for conveying the liquid from the reservoir via a reservoir orifice to an evaporation section of the conveyer outside the reservoir; an air duct for passing an airflow past the evaporation section and including an ejector portion including an air jet generator and an expansion zone downstream of the air jet generator, the air jet generator being arranged to generate an air jet in the airflow through the air duct causing a drop of the static air pressure in the vicinity of the evaporation section, in which the conveyer includes one of a filament bundle, or at least one capillary channel, or at least one capillary tube, or two opposing plates, or a capillary pipe.

Abstract: The inductively heatable tobacco product for aerosol-generation includes an aerosol-forming substrate containing a susceptor in the form of a plurality of particles. The aerosol-forming substrate is a crimped tobacco sheet comprising tobacco material, fibers, binder, aerosol-former and the susceptor in the form of the plurality of particles.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a heater, a component of the heater including a coating, the coating being formed from a glass composition including: between about 30 percent by weight and about 70 percent by weight silicon oxide, between about 0.1 percent by weight and about 10 percent by weight aluminium oxide, between about 2 percent by weight and about 30 percent by weight boron oxide, between about 2 percent by weight and about 40 percent by weight lithium oxide, between about 0.1 percent by weight and about 5 percent by weight magnesium oxide, and one or more of calcium oxide, gallium oxide, potassium oxide, samarium oxide, strontium oxide, and titanium oxide. An aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating article and the aerosol-generating device is also provided.

Abstract: An elongate metallic heater element is provided for an aerosol-generating device, the heater element extending between proximal and distal ends, the proximal end configured for mounting to the device for electrical communication with the device, the heater element including either or both of: a plurality of surface notches formed on a surface of the heater element, and a plurality of sub-surface cavities defined beneath the surface of the heater element, at least some of the plurality of surface notches and the sub-surface cavities of the heater element are provided in an inner region of the heater element extending between the proximal end and 33% of a length of the heater element relative to the proximal end, and in which at least 40% by volume of all of the plurality of surface notches and the sub-surface cavities of the heater element are provided in the inner region.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a heating chamber configured to receive an aerosol-generating article; a sealed housing compartment; a heating element provided in the sealed housing compartment; and a venting means configured to allow gas flow from the sealed housing compartment to an outside of the aerosol-generating device to compensate for heat expansion of gas inside the sealed housing compartment due to a heating operation of the heating element. A method for operating an aerosol-generating system, a venting membrane, and an aerosol-generating system, are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a homogenized tobacco sheet production line comprising: A tank (501) adapted to contain a slurry formed by a tobacco powder blend, a binder (6) and an aerosol former (5) in an aqueous medium; A cast apparatus (200) adapted to receive slurry from the tank (501) and to cast the slurry so as to form a homogenized tobacco material; A movable transporting support (606) on which said slurry is casted and adapted to transport the homogenized tobacco material along a transport direction; A slitter (611) located downstream the cast apparatus (200) adapted to slit the homogenized tobacco material along the transport direction so as to form portioned homogenized tobacco sheets; and A crimper (613) located downstream the slitter (611) adapted to receive at least one of the partial homogenized tobacco sheets from the slitter (611) and to crimp the at least one of the portioned homogenized tobacco sheets. It also relates to a method for inline production of a homogenized tobacco sheet.