Patents by Inventor Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg 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: 20210259307Abstract: A shisha cartridge comprises a body defining a cavity and an internal cavity surface. The cartridge comprises an aerosol-forming substrate disposed in the cavity and comprises a layer of gel disposed in the cavity adjacent the internal cavity surface. As the cartridge is heated, the gel may improve aerosol formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Jean-Yves Vollmer, Ana Isabel Gonzalez Florez, Jakub Bialek, Sébastien Capelli
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Patent number: 11033048Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —pulping and refining cellulose fibres to obtain fibres having a mean size per weight comprised between about 0.2 millimetres and about 4 millimetres; —grinding a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to tobacco particles having a mean size per weight comprised between about 0.03 millimetres and about 0.12 millimetres; —Combining the cellulose fibres with the tobacco particles and with a binder to form a slurry; —homogenizing the slurry; —adding asparaginase to the slurry; and—forming the homogenized tobacco material from the slurry, wherein the homogenized tobacco material comprises from about 1 percent and about 5 percent in dry weight basis of the binder.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Anu Ajithkumar, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Esther Wairimu
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Patent number: 10897929Abstract: An aerosol-generating device configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate is provided, including a power supply, a heater, a controller configured to control a supply of power from the power supply to the heater, and a combustion gas detector, wherein the controller is connected to the combustion detector and is configured to monitor a level of combustion gas based on signals from the combustion gas detector.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Evan Jochnowitz, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg
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Patent number: 10888118Abstract: There is provided a method of making rods having predetermined values of cross-sectional porosity, and a cross-sectional porosity distribution value for use as an aerosol-forming substrate in a heated aerosol-generating article, including providing a continuous sheet of aerosol-forming material having a specified width and a specified thickness; gathering the sheet transversely relative to a longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; severing the rod into a plurality of discrete rods; determining values of cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution for at least one of the discrete rods; and controlling one or more manufacturing parameters to ensure that the cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution values of subsequent rods are within the predetermined values.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Marine Jarriault
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Patent number: 10856573Abstract: A sachet of aerosol-forming substrate for electrically heated aerosol-generating device is provided, including a porous container; and an aerosol-forming substrate within the container, the substrate having a porosity of between about 0.2 and about 0.35, the porosity being the volume fraction of void space within the container. An electrically heated aerosol-generating system is also provided, including a sachet of aerosol-forming substrate; and an aerosol-generating device, the device including an outer housing having a cavity configured to receive the sachet, and an electrical heater including at least one heating element configured to heat the sachet in the cavity to generate an aerosol from the aerosol-forming substrate for inhalation by a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Dionisius Elisabeth Antonius Florack, Noori Moyad Brifcani
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Patent number: 10842182Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing homogenized tobacco material, comprising the steps of: selecting a first target value for a first tobacco characteristic; separately grinding (102) different tobacco types so as to obtain a plurality of different ground tobacco powders; blending (104) at least two of the plurality of different ground tobacco powders so as to form a first tobacco powder blend; blending (104) at least two of the plurality of different ground tobacco powders so as to form a second tobacco powder blend; checking (1123) a value of the first tobacco characteristic in the first tobacco powder blend; if the value of the first characteristic of the first tobacco powder blend is different from the first target value, adding the second tobacco powder blend to the first tobacco powder blend in order to obtain a value of the first tobacco characteristic in a mixture of the first and the second tobacco powder blends different from the value of the first tobacco characteristic in the first tobType: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Stefan Lauenstein
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Patent number: 10813381Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —pulping and refining cellulose fibres to obtain fibres having a mean size comprised between about 0.2 millimetres and about 4 millimetres; —grinding a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to a tobacco powder having a mean size comprised between about 0.03 millimetres and about 0.12 millimetres; —combining the pulp with the tobacco powder blend of different tobacco types and with a binder in an amount comprised between about 1 percent and about 5 percent in dry weight basis of the total weight of the homogenized tobacco material, so as to form a slurry; —homogenizing the slurry; and—forming the homogenized tobacco material from the slurry.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Yorick Klipfel, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Michael Elliott Doyle, Juan David Manzur Bedoya, Pascal Rausis, Marine Jarriault
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Publication number: 20200046026Abstract: The aerosol-generating device comprises a device housing (2), a mouthpiece (3) associated to the device housing, a receiving chamber (4) configured to receive from external to the device at least a portion of a sheet of aerosol-forming substrate in a non-rolled form and configured to accommodate a cylindrically shaped of aerosol-forming substrate and a holder (6) for holding the sheet of aerosol-forming substrate. The device further comprises a rolling device (7) for receiving a flat or non-rolled sheet of aerosol-forming substrate and for rolling the sheet of aerosol-forming substrate around the holder from the non-rolled form into a cylindrically shaped aerosol-forming substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Alexandre Malgat, Stephane Antony Hedarchet, Noori Moyad Brifcani, Lucio Maria Rondinara
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Publication number: 20190380376Abstract: The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; Coarse grinding said tobacco; Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Yorick Klipfel, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Michael Elliott Doyle, Juan David Manzur Bedoya, Pascal Rausis
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Patent number: 10420365Abstract: The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; —Coarse grinding said tobacco; —Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and—Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Yorick Klipfel, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Michael Elliott Doyle, Juan David Manzur Bedoya, Pascal Rausis
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Patent number: 10412989Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to produce a homogenized tobacco material for use in a heat-not-burn aerosol-generating article, comprising the steps of: —selecting a first target value for a first tobacco characteristic, said first tobacco characteristic being reducing sugars and the first target value being comprised between about (8) percent and about (18) percent in dry weight basis of a total amount of tobacco present within the homogenized tobacco material; —selecting a second target value of a second tobacco characteristic, wherein the second tobacco characteristic is one of total ammonia and total alkaloids; —blending graded tobacco types so as to form the tobacco blend, each graded tobacco type comprising a predetermined amount of the first and second tobacco characteristics, so that the first and second target values of said first and second tobacco characteristics are obtained in said blend within a predetermined tolerance range; —grinding said tobacco blend into a blended tobacco powder;Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Yorick Klipfel, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Michael Elliott Doyle, Juan David Manzur Bedoya, Pascal Rausis
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Patent number: 10321707Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparation of a slurry for the production of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —suspending a binder in an aerosol-former to form a suspension; —creating a cellulose pulp from cellulose fibers and water; —providing a tobacco powder blend; and —combining said suspension of binder in aerosol-former, said cellulose pulp and said tobacco powder blend to form said slurry.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Yorick Klipfel, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Michael Elliott Doyle, Juan David Manzur Bedoya, Pascal Rausis, Marine Jarriault
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Publication number: 20190142064Abstract: There is provided a method of making rods having predetermined values of cross-sectional porosity, and a cross-sectional porosity distribution value for use as an aerosol-forming substrate in a heated aerosol-generating article, including providing a continuous sheet of aerosol-forming material having a specified width and a specified thickness; gathering the sheet transversely relative to a longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; severing the rod into a plurality of discrete rods; determining values of cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution for at least one of the discrete rods; and controlling one or more manufacturing parameters to ensure that the cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution values of subsequent rods are within the predetermined values.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Marine Jarriault
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Publication number: 20190133174Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing homogenized tobacco material, comprising the steps of: selecting a first target value for a first tobacco characteristic; separately grinding (102) different tobacco types so as to obtain a plurality of different ground tobacco powders; blending (104) at least two of the plurality of different ground tobacco powders so as to form a first tobacco powder blend; blending (104) at least two of the plurality of different ground tobacco powders so as to form a second tobacco powder blend; checking (1123) a value of the first tobacco characteristic in the first tobacco powder blend; if the value of the first characteristic of the first tobacco powder blend is different from the first target value, adding the second tobacco powder blend to the first tobacco powder blend in order to obtain a value of the first tobacco characteristic in a mixture of the first and the second tobacco powder blends different from the value of the first tobacco characteristic in the first tobType: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Stefan Lauenstein
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Patent number: 10206427Abstract: There is provided a method of making rods having predetermined values of cross-sectional porosity, and a cross-sectional porosity distribution value for use as an aerosol-forming substrate in a heated aerosol-generating article, including providing a continuous sheet of aerosol-forming material having a specified width and a specified thickness; gathering the sheet transversely relative to a longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; severing the rod into a plurality of discrete rods; determining values of cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution for at least one of the discrete rods; and controlling one or more manufacturing parameters to ensure that the cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution values of subsequent rods are within the predetermined values.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Marine Jarriault
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Publication number: 20180310608Abstract: There is provided a heated aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol, the heated aerosol-generating article including: an aerosol-forming substrate that is a homogenized tobacco material including tobacco, a fat having a melting point between 20° C. and 50° C., and one or more aerosol-formers, the homogenized tobacco material containing at least 60% tobacco on a dry weight basis. A homogenized tobacco material is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2016Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Alain SCIBOZ, Corinne DEFOREL, Johannes Petrus Maria PIJNENBURG, Marine JARRIAULT
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Publication number: 20180192687Abstract: The method for manufacturing an inductively heatable aerosol-forming substrate comprises the steps of providing a tobacco containing slurry, providing an inductively heatable continuous sheet-like material and joining the tobacco containing slurry and the inductively heatable continuous sheet-like material to form an inductively heatable aerosol-forming substrate. A further step comprises drying the inductively heatable aerosol-forming substrate while transporting the inductively heatable aerosol-forming substrate on a conveyor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Oleg Mironov, Yorick Klipfel
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Publication number: 20180177228Abstract: There is provided a method of making rods having predetermined values of cross-sectional porosity, and a cross-sectional porosity distribution value for use as an aerosol-forming substrate in a heated aerosol-generating article, including providing a continuous sheet of aerosol-forming material having a specified width and a specified thickness; gathering the sheet transversely relative to a longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; severing the rod into a plurality of discrete rods; determining values of cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution for at least one of the discrete rods; and controlling one or more manufacturing parameters to ensure that the cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution values of subsequent rods are within the predetermined values.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2015Publication date: June 28, 2018Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria PIJNENBURG, Marine JARRIAULT
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Publication number: 20180049465Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: pulping and refining cellulose fibres to obtain fibres having a mean size per weight comprised between about 0.2 millimetres and about 4 millimetres; grinding a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to tobacco particles having a mean size per weight comprised between about 0.03 millimetres and about 0.12 millimetres; Combining the cellulose fibres with the tobacco particles and with a binder to form a slurry; homogenizing the slurry; adding asparaginase to the slurry; and—forming the homogenized to—bacco material from the slurry, wherein the homogenized tobacco material comprises from about 1 percent and about 5 percent in dry weight basis of the binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2016Publication date: February 22, 2018Inventors: Anu Ajithkumar, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Esther Wairimu
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Publication number: 20170360088Abstract: A sachet of aerosol-forming substrate for electrically heated aerosol-generating device is provided, including a porous container; and an aerosol-forming substrate within the container, the substrate having a porosity of between about 0.2 and about 0.35, the porosity being the volume fraction of void space within the container. An electrically heated aerosol-generating system is also provided, including a sachet of aerosol-forming substrate; and an aerosol-generating device, the device including an outer housing having a cavity configured to receive the sachet, and an electrical heater including at least one heating element configured to heat the sachet in the cavity to generate an aerosol from the aerosol-forming substrate for inhalation by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Johannes Petrus Maria PIJNENBURG, Dionisius Elisabeth Antonius FLORACK, Noori Moyad BRIFCANI