Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-forming substrate is provided, the aerosol-generating device including: a heating element configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate when the aerosol-forming substrate is received by the aerosol-generating device, the heating element including a plurality of metallic nanoparticles configured to receive light and to generate heat by surface plasmon resonance.

Abstract: A sheet is provided, including a fibrous material, one or more nicotine salts, and sugar, at least about 20% by weight of the one or more nicotine salts being monoprotic.

Abstract: A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the cartridge including: a liquid storage portion including a housing to contain a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; and a heater assembly including an electrically insulating element having an opening, an electrical heating element supported by the insulating element and to heat the substrate to form an aerosol, first and second electrically conductive contact portions disposed at opposite sides of the opening and to contact with a battery to supply power to the heater assembly, and a capillary material including a ceramic or a ceramic-based material and having first and second faces, the first face being in physical contact with the heating element and the second face being opposite the first face, the capillary material to convey the substrate to the heating element by capillary action, the heater assembly being fixed to the housing of the liquid storage portion.

Abstract: A handheld aerosol-generating device is provided, including a cartridge receiving region configured to receive a cartridge, the cartridge including a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, in which the cartridge receiving region includes an opening element, in which the opening element is configured to pierce a sealing foil of the cartridge when the cartridge is received in the cartridge receiving region, and in which the cartridge receiving region is configured to receive the cartridge transversally from either of both sides of the device. A handheld aerosol-generating system including the handheld aerosol-generating device is also provided. A method of attaching a cartridge including a liquid aerosol-forming substrate with a handheld aerosol-generating device is also provided.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a heating cavity configured to accommodate an aerosol-generating article; an airflow path into which ambient air is drawn and through which air flows to reach the heating cavity through the aerosol-generating device; one or both of a humidity sensor and a temperature sensor arranged in the airflow path and configured to provide for an output indicative of a temperature in the airflow path; a controller configured to receive the output; and a vaporizer in communication with the airflow path, the controller being further configured to control operation of the vaporizer on the basis of the received output to increase a humidity of air in the airflow path. A method of moisturizing air in the aerosol-generating device is also provided. An aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-forming substrate is also provided.

Abstract: An inhaler article is provided, including: a cavity; a capsule located in the cavity, the capsule containing dry powder; and a hollow tubular element disposed downstream of the capsule, the hollow tubular element including: a peripheral portion defining a hollow inner region of the hollow tubular element, and a support element formed from a sheet and extending from a first point at the peripheral portion across the hollow inner region to a second point at the peripheral portion. An inhaler system, including the inhaler article and a holder configured to receive the inhaler article, is also provided.

Abstract: A method for controlling aerosol production in an aerosol-generating device is provided, the aerosol-generating device including an inductive heating arrangement and a power source configured to provide power to the inductive heating arrangement, and the method including: performing, during a first heating phase during user operation of the aerosol-generating device for producing an aerosol, a calibration process including measuring one or more calibration values associated with a susceptor inductively coupled to the inductive heating arrangement, the susceptor being configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate; and during a second heating phase during the user operation of the aerosol-generating device for producing the aerosol, controlling power provided to the inductive heating arrangement such that a temperature of the susceptor is adjusted based on the one or more calibration values.

Abstract: A method for controlling aerosol production in an aerosol-generating device including a heating arrangement and a power source is provided, including: performing a calibration process for measuring calibration values, the arrangement configured to inductively heat the susceptor based on the values, and the process including controlling power to increase a temperature of the susceptor, monitoring a conductance value or a resistance value of the susceptor, interrupting power when the conductance value reaches a maximum or when the resistance value reaches a minimum, the value at maximum conductance or at minimum resistance being a second calibration value, and monitoring the conductance value until it reaches a minimum or the resistance value until it reaches a maximum, the value at minimum conductance or at maximum resistance being a first calibration value, the process being in response to detecting a control signal associated with an end of a predetermined duration pre-heating process.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided for producing an inhalable aerosol when heated, the aerosol-generating article including: a hollow cylindrical rod of aerosol-generating substrate; a wrapper circumscribing the hollow cylindrical rod; and a hollow tube extending along a longitudinal axis of the hollow cylindrical rod and defining a central airflow channel of the aerosol-generating article, the hollow tube including a plurality of openings extending through a wall of the hollow tube, such that the aerosol-generating substrate in the hollow cylindrical rod is in fluid communication with the central airflow channel through the plurality of openings, and such that a ratio between a cumulative cross-sectional area of the plurality of openings and a cross-sectional area of the central airflow channel is from about 0.042 to about 0.672.

Abstract: A container for consumer goods including elongated articles is provided, including: a lid and a box for housing consumer goods, the box including a box front wall with a box front lower section and a box front upper section and a first box side wall and a second box side wall, the upper first longitudinal edge in the box front upper section being tilted with respect to the lower first longitudinal edge in the box front lower section so that the upper first longitudinal edge is at an angle to the lower first longitudinal edge. The titled upper first longitudinal edge may advantageously assist in a smooth lid closure by reducing the risk that the lid catches the upper edges of the box when the lid rotates to its close position.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for generating an aerosol by inductive heating of an aerosol-forming substrate is provided, the device including a device housing including a cavity configured to receive the aerosol-forming substrate; an induction source including an induction coil configured to generate an alternating magnetic field within the cavity, the induction coil being arranged around at least a portion of the cavity; a flux concentrator arranged around the induction coil and configured to distort the alternating magnetic field of the induction source towards the cavity; and a bond layer firmly coupled to a least a portion of the flux concentrator, the bond layer including or consisting of a poly(p-xylylene) polymer. There is also provided an aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating device including and an aerosol-generating article for the device, the article including an aerosol-forming substrate to be heated.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating system is provided, including an aerosol-generating device for simultaneously generating an aerosol from first and second aerosol-forming substrates, the device including a device housing defining: first and second substrate receiving portions to respectively receive the first and the second substrates; a primary airflow path extending through the first portion; and a secondary airflow path extending through the device such that, in use, the secondary airflow path is in fluidic communication with the second substrate received in second receiving portion, the secondary airflow path merging with the primary airflow path at a junction downstream of the first portion; an aerosol-generating article including the first substrate and being receivable in the first portion; and a cartridge including the second substrate and being receivable in the second portion, the article defining a rod and an exterior wall of the rod including a fluid-permeable portion downstream of the first substrate.

Abstract: A cartridge for a stick-shaped aerosol-generating article is provided, the article being for an inductively heating aerosol-generating device, the cartridge including: a vaporization chamber at a distal end portion of the cartridge to vaporize aerosol-forming liquid; a reservoir chamber proximal the vaporization chamber to store the liquid; a liquid-conveying susceptor arrangement to convey the liquid from the reservoir chamber into the vaporization chamber and to be inductively heated with the device in order to vaporize the liquid within the vaporization chamber; a vapor-conveying conduit providing a fluid communication for vaporized liquid from the vaporization chamber to a region proximal the reservoir chamber; a septum forming a common wall of the vaporization chamber and the reservoir chamber, the septum including a filling hole for filling the liquid into the reservoir chamber via the vaporization chamber; and a plug-shaped distal end cap forming a distal end wall of the vaporization chamber.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating system including a cartridge is provided, the cartridge including a liquid storage portion including a housing configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the housing having an opening; and a heater assembly including at least one heater element fixed to the housing and extending across an opening of the housing, wherein a width of the at least one heater element of the heater assembly is smaller than a width of the opening of the housing. The heater element may be spaced from a periphery of the opening, leading to more efficient heating and aerosol production.

Abstract: A heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the heater assembly including: a retention material containing an aerosol-forming substrate in condensed form, the aerosol-forming substrate including first and second compounds, the second compound having a higher boiling point than the first compound; at least one airflow path defined through the retention material; and at least one heating element shaped to define an interior volume filled with the retention material and having a cross-sectional area that decreases along a longitudinal axis, the at least one airflow path passes through a first central region of the interior volume and a second central region of the interior volume, the first and the second central regions being spaced-apart along the longitudinal axis, and a resistance of the at least one heating element increasing along the longitudinal axis in a same direction that the cross-sectional area of the interior volume decreases.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device configured for heating an aerosol-generating article so as to generate an inhalable aerosol from an aerosol-forming substrate of the aerosol-generating article is provided, the aerosol-generating device including: a housing including a cavity configured to receive the aerosol-generating article, the housing being configured to define a cooling air flow path extending from outside of the housing, through an interior of the housing, to an air-permeable portion of a wall of the cavity, the wall being tubular, the air-permeable portion of the wall including at least one annular air-permeable band being configured to radially channel an air flow from the cooling air flow path into the cavity around a periphery of the tubular wall of the cavity. An aerosol-delivery system including the aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-generating article defining a rod is also provided. An aerosol-generating article for an aerosol-generating device is also provided.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating system for heating a liquid aerosol-forming substrate is provided, the aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-forming chamber; and leakage prevention cavity configured to prevent or reduce leakage of liquid aerosol condensate from the aerosol-generating system, the cavity being in a wall of the aerosol-forming chamber and being configured to collect liquid condensate formed from the aerosol-forming substrate, and in which the cavity is in a form of an annular groove.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: an air inlet; an air outlet; an air flow passage extending in a first direction between the air inlet and the air outlet; a heating element in the air flow passage configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate; a first temperature sensor configured to measure a first temperature at a first position along the air flow passage; a second temperature sensor spaced apart in the first direction from the first sensor configured to measure a second temperature at a second position along the air flow passage; and a controller configured to control an operating parameter of the aerosol-generating device based on the measured first temperature and the measured second temperature.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided for producing an inhalable aerosol upon heating, the aerosol-generating article including: an aerosol-generating element including aerosol-generating substrate including a homogenised tobacco material including aerosol former; and a susceptor arranged within the aerosol-generating element and configured to heat the homogenised tobacco material, the susceptor being coated with a coating composition including at least 20 percent by weight of an aerosol former, the coating composition further including about 0.5 percent by weight to about 10 percent by weight of isolated nicotine or a monoprotic nicotine salt derived from tobacco or both. A method of manufacturing the aerosol-generating article for generating an inhalable aerosol upon heating is also provided.

Abstract: A split airflow system for an electrically heatable smoking system for generating aerosol is provided, the system having a downstream end, the system including: a first channel defining a first flow route; and a second Channel defining a second flow route, the first flow route directing ambient air from outside the split airflow system to the downstream end of the split airflow system, the second flow route directs ambient air from outside the split airflow system towards a substantially flat, fluid-permeable heating element before conveying the ambient air to the downstream end, and the first channel and the second channel define a total volume of ambient air passing through the split airflow system and the first channel provides at least 50 percent of the total volume of ambient air passing through the split airflow system.