Patents by Inventor Fabien Zuchuat
Fabien Zuchuat 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).
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Publication number: 20240049790Abstract: 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 therein; a reservoir chamber proximal the vaporization chamber to store aerosol-forming liquid; a septum forming a common wall member of the chambers; a liquid-conveying susceptor arrangement to convey aerosol-forming liquid from the reservoir chamber into the vaporization chamber and to be inductively heated to vaporize aerosol-forming liquid within the vaporization chamber; and a vapor-conveying conduit providing a fluid communication for vaporized aerosol-forming liquid from the vaporization chamber to a region proximal the reservoir chamber, the septum including a through hole, which the vapor-conveying conduit passes through or is supported in at a distal end portion, and including a filling hole for filling aerosol-forming liquid into the reType: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Oleg FURSA, Fabien ZUCHUAT, Vladimir KISELEV, Antoine TORBEY MEOUCHI, Timothy GOODENOUGH
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Publication number: 20240032597Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Oleg FURSA, Fabien ZUCHUAT, Vladimir KISELEV, Antoine TORBEY MEOUCHI, Timothy GOODENOUGH
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Publication number: 20240008535Abstract: 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 for vaporizing aerosol-forming liquid therein; a reservoir chamber proximal the vaporization chamber to store aerosol-forming liquid; a liquid-conveying susceptor arrangement to convey liquid from the reservoir chamber into the vaporization chamber and to be inductively heated in use with the device in order to vaporize 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; and a proximal end cap forming at last a proximal end wall member of the reservoir chamber and including a through hole in which a proximal end portion of the vapor-conveying conduit is supported.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Oleg FURSA, Fabien ZUCHUAT, Vladimir KISELEV, Antoine TORBEY MEOUCHI, Timothy GOODENOUGH
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Publication number: 20240000145Abstract: 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; a reservoir chamber proximal the vaporization chamber; 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 to vaporize the liquid; a vapor-conveying conduit providing fluid communication for vaporized liquid to a region proximal the reservoir chamber, a proximal end portion of the conduit passing through, ending integrally in, or supported in a through hole of a proximal end wall of the reservoir chamber; a distal end cap forming a distal wall of the vaporization chamber; a proximal end cap forming the proximal end wall; and a cartridge sleeve forming a circumferential outer side wall of the vaporization chamber and of the reservoir chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Oleg FURSA, Fabien ZUCHUAT, Vladimir KISELEV, Antoine TORBEY MEOUCHI, Timothy GOODENOUGH
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Publication number: 20240000144Abstract: A stick-shaped aerosol-generating article for an inductively heating aerosol-generating device is provided, the article including: a mouthpiece; a cartridge including a vaporization chamber at a distal end portion of the cartridge to vaporize aerosol-forming liquid therein, the chamber including an air inlet, a reservoir chamber proximal the vaporization chamber to store aerosol-forming liquid, a liquid-conveying susceptor arrangement to convey aerosol-forming liquid from the reservoir chamber into the vaporization chamber and to be inductively heated with the device in order to vaporize 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, such that apart from the air inlet and the fluid communication, the vaporization chamber is fully enclosed by wall members; and a first wrapper circumferentially wrapped around the vaporization chamber and the reservoir chamber, and aroType: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Oleg FURSA, Fabien ZUCHUAT, Vladimir KISELEV, Antoine TORBEY MEOUCHI, Timothy GOODENOUGH
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Publication number: 20210267261Abstract: A tobacco cut filler comprises a first tobacco material cut in accordance with a first cut specification, wherein the first cut specification sets at least predetermined first cut width and first cut length.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Fabien Zuchuat, Otto Virag
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Patent number: 11044936Abstract: A tobacco cut filler comprises a first tobacco material cut in accordance with a first cut specification, wherein the first cut specification sets at least predetermined first cut width and first cut length.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Fabien Zuchuat, Otto Virag
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Patent number: 10791756Abstract: The invention relates to a reconstituted tobacco sheet having a basis weight of less than about about 230 grams per square metre and comprising tobacco stem or tobacco stalk refined fibres having an average length of at least about 200 micrometres and tobacco cast leaf material. There is further provided a method of making a reconstituted tobacco sheet, the method comprising providing tobacco stems and conditioning the tobacco stems such that their moisture content is increased to at least about 40% Oven Volatiles (OV). The tobacco stems are processed in a twin screw extruder to so as to obtain a pulp suspension having a Schop-per-Riegler index of at least about 30 degrees and comprising tobacco stem or tobacco stalk refined fibres having an average length of at least about 200 micrometres. This pulp suspension is combined with tobacco cast leaf material to obtain a slurry and a sheet is formed from this slurry.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Fabien Zuchuat, Alen Kadiric
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Publication number: 20180116274Abstract: A tobacco cut filler comprises a first tobacco material cut in accordance with a first cut specification, wherein the first cut specification sets at least predetermined first cut width and first cut length.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Fabien Zuchuat, Otto Virag
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Publication number: 20170035095Abstract: The invention relates to a reconstituted tobacco sheet having a basis weight of less than about about 230 grams per square metre and comprising tobacco stem or tobacco stalk refined fibres having an average length of at least about 200 micrometres and tobacco cast leaf material. There is further provided a method of making a reconstituted tobacco sheet, the method comprising providing tobacco stems and conditioning the tobacco stems such that their moisture content is increased to at least about 40% Oven Volatiles (OV). The tobacco stems are processed in a twin screw extruder to so as to obtain a pulp suspension having a Schop-per-Riegler index of at least about 30 degrees and comprising tobacco stem or tobacco stalk refined fibres having an average length of at least about 200 micrometres. This pulp suspension is combined with tobacco cast leaf material to obtain a slurry and a sheet is formed from this slurry.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Fabien Zuchuat, Alen Kadiric
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Patent number: 8863754Abstract: Strands of homogenized tobacco material include at least one aerosol former, An aerosol-generating substrate includes a plurality of those strands of homogenized tobacco material. A smoking article may further include the aerosol-generating substrate. Those strands of homogenized tobacco material preferably have a mass-to-surface-area ratio of at least about 0.09 mg/mm2 and an aerosol former content of between about 12% and about 25% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Phillip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Jean-Marc Renaud, Jean-Jacques Pladé, Jacques Zuber, Fabien Zuchuat, Anu Ajithkumar, Samuel Bonnely, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
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Publication number: 20120006343Abstract: Strands of homogenized tobacco material include at least one aerosol former, An aerosol-generating substrate includes a plurality of those strands of homogenized tobacco material. A smoking article may further include the aerosol-generating substrate. Those strands of homogenized tobacco material preferably have a mass-to-surface-area ratio of at least about 0.09 mg/mm2 and an aerosol former content of between about 12% and about 25% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Jean-Marc Renaud, Jean-Jacques Pladé, Jacques Zuber, Fabien Zuchuat, Anu Ajithkumar, Samuel Bonnely, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg