Patents by Inventor Frederic Lavanchy

Frederic Lavanchy 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: 12453373
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aerosol-generating device comprising a cavity. The cavity is configured to receive an aerosol-generating article. The device comprises a first sealing element arranged along a sidewall of the cavity. The first sealing element is arranged at an upstream portion of the cavity. The device comprises a second sealing element. The second sealing element is arranged at a downstream portion of the sidewall of the cavity. The device further comprises a power supply and a heating element. The heating element is an external heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Lavanchy, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
  • Publication number: 20250241355
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: a substrate portion containing aerosol-forming substrate, substrate portion having a length of between 20 millimeters and 60 millimeters and a diameter of between 4 millimeters and 7 millimeters, the aerosol-forming substrate including an aerosol former, and an amount of aerosol former ranging between 6 percent and 20 percent by weight on a dry weight basis of the aerosol-forming substrate; a hollow acetate tube; and an additional filter section included between the substrate portion and the hollow acetate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic LAVANCHY, Marine JARRIAULT, Chrystophe SCHALLER, Celine LESUFFLEUR
  • Publication number: 20250176616
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: an aerosol-forming substrate including plant material cut filler and between about 6 percent and about 20 percent of an aerosol-former; and a laminated wrapper arranged at least partly wrapped around the aerosol-forming substrate, the laminated wrapper including a heat conductive layer and a heat insulating layer, the heat conductive layer and the heat insulating layer overlapping along an axial direction of the aerosol-generating article. An aerosol-generating system is also provided, including the aerosol-generating article and an aerosol-generating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic LAVANCHY, Yves JORDIL
  • Patent number: 12239158
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: an aerosol-forming substrate including plant material cut filler and between about 6 percent and about 20 percent of an aerosol-former, the plant material cut filler including at least 25 percent of plant lamina per weight of total plant material; and a laminated wrapper including a heat conductive layer and a heat insulating layer, the laminated wrapper being arranged at least partly wrapped around the aerosol-forming substrate and having a thickness of between 30 micrometers and 100 micrometers, and the heat conductive layer and the heat insulating layer overlapping along an axial direction of the aerosol-generating article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Lavanchy, Yves Jordil
  • Patent number: 12232535
    Abstract: A mouthpiece for attachment to a hollow tubular filter portion of an aerosol-generating article is provided, the mouthpiece including: an inner tubular section having a minimum outer diameter, which is smaller than an inner diameter of the hollow tubular filter portion; an outer tubular section having a maximum inner diameter, which is larger than an outer diameter of the aerosol-generating article; a central airflow channel arranged along a longitudinal axis of the mouthpiece, the airflow channel including a Venturi portion, the Venturi portion including an inlet portion and an outlet portion, the inlet portion being configured to converge in a downstream direction and the outlet portion being configured to diverge in a downstream direction; and a hinge section configured to attach the mouthpiece to an aerosol-generating device. A system including the mouthpiece, and a method for attaching the mouthpiece to the hollow tubular filter portion are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Lavanchy, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
  • Patent number: 12225930
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: a substrate portion containing aerosol-forming substrate; and a hollow tubular filter portion having an inner diameter of between 0.5 millimeters and 2 millimeters, and the aerosol-forming substrate including at least one aerosol-former selected from the group consisting of: polyhydric alcohols, esters of polyhydric alcohols, and aliphatic esters of mono-, di-, or polycarboxylic acids. A system for generating an aerosol is also provided, including an aerosol-generating device including a heating chamber and a heating element; and the aerosol-generating article, the aerosol-generating article being configured to be insertable into the heating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Lavanchy, Michel Bessant, Silviu Natanael Pantea, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
  • Patent number: 12035742
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: a substrate portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate; and a connect portion disposed at one end of the aerosol-generating article in direct abutment with the substrate portion, the connect portion having a tubular empty core structure, the substrate portion having a length of between 20 millimeters and 60 millimeters, and a diameter of between 4 millimeters and 7 millimeters, the aerosol-forming substrate including an aerosol former, and an amount of the aerosol former ranges between 6 percent and 20 percent by weight on a dry weight basis of the aerosol-forming substrate. An aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating article and an aerosol-generating device, and a method for manufacturing the aerosol-generating article, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Lavanchy, Marine Jarriault, Chrystophe Schaller, Celine Lesuffleur
  • Patent number: 12016399
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aerosol-generating device (10) for receiving a mouthpiece (12). The aerosol-generating device comprises a detection element (20) for detecting a type of mouthpiece received by the aerosol-generating device, a controller (24) for controlling an operation parameter of the aerosol-generating device and a heating element configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate of an aerosol-generating article (28) when the aerosol-generating article is received by the aerosol-generating device. The controller is configured to receive an input indicative of the type of mouthpiece detected by the detection element and configured to control the operation parameter of the aerosol-generating device on basis of the detected type of mouthpiece received by the aerosol-generating device. The operation parameter of the aerosol-generating device comprises a temperature profile of the heating element during heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic Lavanchy, Oleg Mironov, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
  • Patent number: 11564411
    Abstract: A smoking article is provided, including a combustible heat source having opposed front and rear faces; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the rear face; a first heat-conducting element circumscribing a rear portion of the combustible heat source and at least a front portion of the aerosol-forming substrate; a second heat-conducting element around at least a portion of the first heat-conducting element, wherein at least part of the second heat-conducting element is radially separated from the first heat-conducting element; and one or more first air inlets around a periphery of the aerosol-forming substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Ana Carolina Borges De Couraca, Cristina Apetrei Birza, David Kuchen, Frederic Lavanchy, Laurent Edouard Poget
  • Publication number: 20220295878
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aerosol-generating device comprising a cavity. The cavity is configured to receive an aerosol-generating article. The device comprises a first sealing element arranged along a sidewall of the cavity. The first sealing element is arranged at an upstream portion of the cavity. The device comprises a second sealing element. The second sealing element is arranged at a downstream portion of the sidewall of the cavity. The device further comprises a power supply and a heating element. The heating element is an external heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Frederic Lavanchy, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
  • Publication number: 20220279843
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aerosol-generating system comprising an aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-generating article comprising aerosol-forming substrate. The aerosol-generating device comprises a cavity. The cavity is configured to receive the aerosol-generating article comprising aerosol-forming substrate. The device further comprises a mouthpiece configured to close the cavity. The aerosol-generating device is configured such that a gap is provided between the mouthpiece and the aerosol-generating article when the aerosol-generating article is received in the cavity and the mouthpiece is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Michel Bessant, Frederic Lavanchy, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Jun Wei Yim
  • Patent number: 11330835
    Abstract: An aerosol generating article is provided, including a combustible carbonaceous heat source; an aerosol-forming substrate; and a thermal indicator provided on an outer surface of the aerosol-generating article downstream of the combustible carbonaceous heat source. The thermal indicator includes at least one reversible thermochromic material that undergoes a first reversible visible colour change when a temperature of the thermal indicator rises to a first switching temperature and a second reversible visible colour change when a temperature of the thermal indicator falls to a second switching temperature. The first switching temperature is below about 80° C. and the second switching temperature is lower than or equal to the first switching temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Frederic Lavanchy
  • Patent number: 11246337
    Abstract: There is provided a heated aerosol-generating article for use with an aerosol-generating device having a heating element, the heated aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate and a breachable air-flow barrier assembled within a wrapper to form a rod having a mouth end and a distal end upstream from the mouth end, in which the breachable air-flow barrier is positioned to substantially prevent air being drawn through the aerosol-forming substrate when a user draws on the mouth end of the rod, and in which the aerosol-forming substrate comprises a gathered sheet of aerosol-forming material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Alexandre Malgat, Stephane Roudier, Ana Carolina Borges de Couraca, Frederic Lavanchy, Cedric Meyer
  • Publication number: 20220039478
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aerosol-generating device (10) for receiving a mouthpiece (12). The aerosol-generating device comprises a detection element (20) for detecting a type of mouthpiece received by the aerosol-generating device, a controller (24) for controlling an operation parameter of the aerosol-generating device and a heating element configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate of an aerosol-generating article (28) when the aerosol-generating article is received by the aerosol-generating device. The controller is configured to receive an input indicative of the type of mouthpiece detected by the detection element and configured to control the operation parameter of the aerosol-generating device on basis of the detected type of mouthpiece received by the aerosol-generating device. The operation parameter of the aerosol-generating device comprises a temperature profile of the heating element during heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Frederic Lavanchy, Oleg Mironov, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
  • Publication number: 20220039458
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: an aerosol-forming substrate including plant material cut filler and between about 6 percent and about 20 percent of an aerosol-former, the plant material cut filler including at least 25 percent of plant lamina per weight of total plant material; and a laminated wrapper including a heat conductive layer and a heat insulating layer, the laminated wrapper being arranged at least partly wrapped around the aerosol-forming substrate and having a thickness of between 30 micrometers and 100 micrometers, and the heat conductive layer and the heat insulating layer overlapping along an axial direction of the aerosol-generating article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic LAVANCHY, Yves JORDIL
  • Publication number: 20220030939
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: a substrate portion containing aerosol-forming substrate; and a hollow tubular filter portion having an inner diameter of between 0.5 millimeters and 2 millimeters, and the aerosol-forming substrate including at least one aerosol-former selected from the group consisting of: polyhydric alcohols, esters of polyhydric alcohols, and aliphatic esters of mono-, di-, or polycarboxylic acids. A system for generating an aerosol is also provided, including an aerosol-generating device including a heating chamber and a heating element; and the aerosol-generating article, the aerosol-generating article being configured to be insertable into the heating chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic LAVANCHY, Michel BESSANT, Silviu Natanael PANTEA, Johannes Petrus Maria PIJNENBURG
  • Publication number: 20220030930
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: a substrate portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate; and a connect portion disposed at one end of the aerosol-generating article in direct abutment with the substrate portion, the connect portion having a tubular empty core structure, the substrate portion having a length of between 20 millimeters and 60 millimeters, and a diameter of between 4 millimeters and 7 millimeters, the aerosol-forming substrate including an aerosol former, and an amount of the aerosol former ranges between 6 percent and 20 percent by weight on a dry weight basis of the aerosol-forming substrate. An aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating article and an aerosol-generating device, and a method for manufacturing the aerosol-generating article, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic LAVANCHY, Marine JARRIAULT, Chrystophe SCHALLER, Celine LESUFFLEUR
  • Publication number: 20220030951
    Abstract: A mouthpiece for attachment to a hollow tubular filter portion of an aerosol-generating article is provided, the mouthpiece including: an inner tubular section having a minimum outer diameter, which is smaller than an inner diameter of the hollow tubular filter portion; an outer tubular section having a maximum inner diameter, which is larger than an outer diameter of the aerosol-generating article; a central airflow channel arranged along a longitudinal axis of the mouthpiece, the airflow channel including a Venturi portion, the Venturi portion including an inlet portion and an outlet portion, the inlet portion being configured to converge in a downstream direction and the outlet portion being configured to diverge in a downstream direction; and a hinge section configured to attach the mouthpiece to an aerosol-generating device. A system including the mouthpiece, and a method for attaching the mouthpiece to the hollow tubular filter portion are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Frederic LAVANCHY, Johannes Petrus Maria PIJNENBURG
  • Patent number: D972203
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventors: Anthony Dumville, David Kuchen, Frederic Lavanchy, Stephane Roudier
  • Patent number: D973950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.
    Inventors: David Kuchen, Frederic Lavanchy, Stephane Roudier