Patents by Inventor Arno Rinker

Arno Rinker has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9814265
    Abstract: A vaporizer device for vaporizing substances is provided, containing active and/or aroma materials, including a mouthpiece with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and including: a heating device with a thermal resistor being a metallic foil or a thin sheet configured as a dual coil and/or sinuous line with two ends and dimensions of the cross-section of a cigarette or a small cigar, wherein the interspaces of the dual coil and/or sinuous line allow fluid flow therethrough, contact tabs are connected to respective opposed ends of the dual coil and/or sinuous line and are not in direct contact with one another, and at least one permeable and wettable vaporizer membrane in large-area contact with the thermal resistor, wherein the thermal resistor and the at least one vaporizer membrane are arranged orthogonally or at an angle to the direction of the fluids passing through the mouthpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventors: Arno Rinker, Philipp Litzenberger
  • Patent number: 9781952
    Abstract: A method and device are provided for volatilizing active and/or aroma materials for releasing an inhalable aerosol, wherein a fluid flows through a flow channel in a preferably cylindrical hollow body, wherein the fluid in the flow channel entirely or in part flows through at least one vaporizer membrane in a fluid stream, wherein the at least one vaporizer membrane has been and/or is wetted with a substance containing an active and/or aroma material to be vaporized, and wherein the fluid additionally contains thermal energy and vaporizes the substance on flowing through the vaporizer membrane and supplies the vaporized substance to the fluid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventors: Arno Rinker, Philipp Litzenberger
  • Publication number: 20140305454
    Abstract: A vaporizer device for vaporizing substances is provided, containing active and/or aroma materials, including a mouthpiece with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and including: a heating device with a thermal resistor being a metallic foil or a thin sheet configured as a dual coil and/or sinuous line with two ends and dimensions of the cross-section of a cigarette or a small cigar, wherein the interspaces of the dual coil and/or sinuous line allow fluid flow therethrough, contact tabs are connected to respective opposed ends of the dual coil and/or sinuous line and are not in direct contact with one another, and at least one permeable and wettable vaporizer membrane in large-area contact with the thermal resistor, wherein the thermal resistor and the at least one vaporizer membrane are arranged orthogonally or at an angle to the direction of the fluids passing through the mouthpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventors: Arno Rinker, Philipp Litzenberger
  • Patent number: 8733346
    Abstract: An aerosol-releasing inhalation device, fuelling station, and apparatus are provided. The device includes a mouthpiece having a substance depot, and a heating member detachably connected to the mouthpiece for volatilising a substance to release an inhalable aerosol. The heating member includes a housing sleeve having at least one air inlet, and at least one hot air outlet at a mouthpiece end separated from the air inlet; a filling valve at the mouthpiece end to fill a tank with a flammable gas; a premix burner; a regulating valve to control release of the gas to the premix burner by suction on the mouthpiece; and a mass transfer exchanger to heat air by heat generated from the premix burner. The substance depot at least partially passes combustion gases, and a desired inhalation air temperature is selectable by at least a proportion of the combustion gases exiting the mass transfer exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Arno Rinker
  • Publication number: 20120111346
    Abstract: Method and device for volatilising active and/or aroma materials for the purpose of releasing an inhalable aerosol, wherein a fluid flows through a flow channel (11) in a preferably cylindrical hollow body (1) and wherein the fluid in this flow channel entirely or in part flows through at least one vaporiser membrane (2), wherein the at least one vaporiser membrane has been and/or is wetted with a substance containing an active and/or aroma material to be vaporised and wherein the fluid additionally containing thermal energy vaporises this substance on flowing through the vaporiser membrane and supplies it to the fluid stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: WEDEGREE GMBH
    Inventors: Arno Rinker, Philipp Litzenberger
  • Publication number: 20100126505
    Abstract: A method for volatilising active and/or aroma substances for the purpose of releasing an inhalable aerosol, wherein combustion gases of a flammable gas, which is preferably combusted with an excess of air, are passed partially or entirely, optionally mixed with ambient air, through an active and/or aroma substance depot and wherein a desired temperature is selectable by the proportion of combustion gases and optionally by the mixing ratio of said combustion gases with ambient air and the device implementing the method in the shape and dimensions of a cigarette or cigar for releasing an inhalable aerosol, comprising a mouthpiece (3) containing an active and/or aroma substance depot (32), a heating member (2) with a housing sleeve with one or more air inlets and one or more hot air outlets at the mouthpiece end, a filling valve (21) for filling a gas tank (22) with a flammable gas, preferably propane or butane gas, a regulating valve (24) for the controlled release of the gas from the gas tank (22) to a burner
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: WEDEGREE GMBH
    Inventor: Arno Rinker