Abstract: An aerosol provision system comprising: a substrate comprising aerosol generating medium, the substrate including a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface; a source of energy for heating arranged to face the second surface of the substrate, wherein the source of energy for heating is configured to cause heating of the aerosol generating medium to form an aerosol; and a movement mechanism arranged to enable movement of the aerosol generating medium relative to the source of energy for heating, wherein the aerosol generating medium is rotationally movable relative to the source of energy for heating such that portions of the aerosol generating medium are presented to the source of energy for heating, and wherein the aerosol generating medium is rotated around an axis at an angle to the first surface.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device for receiving an aerosol generating article includes an electrical circuit including a controller for determining a change in an electrical property of the circuit. The change in the electrical property of the circuit is caused by the user interacting with an aerosol generating article received by the device.

Abstract: An aerosol provision system generates aerosol from an aerosol generating material for user inhalation. The system includes a computer configured to estimate user demand for an active ingredient within the generated aerosol, based on one or more inhalation actions of the user during an immediately preceding inhalation session, where an inhalation session being no more than one hour long. The computer adjusts one or more operational parameters of the aerosol provision system responsive to the estimated user demand, and adapts aerosol provision for the next inhalation action.

Abstract: An aerosol generating apparatus is provided, including a chamber configured to receive an article including an aerosolizable medium and a detection circuit configured to generate data indicative of the presence of an article comprising an aerosolizable medium within the chamber. The detection circuit can include an inductor and a capacitor arranged in a resonant circuit and a detector configured to measure the resonant frequency of the resonant circuit and output data indicative of the presence of the article in the chamber based on the measured resonant frequency. There is also provided a system for generating aerosol, an article and method of determining the presence of an article including an aerosolizable medium.

Abstract: An electronic aerosol provision system can include an airflow sensor operable to measure an airflow parameter; a profile recall unit operable to recall one or more inhalation airflow profiles, describing at least one of a velocity or an amount of air inhaled through the electronic aerosol provision system over a course of a puff by a user; and a comparison processing unit operable to compare a measured airflow parameter with at least a first inhalation airflow profile while providing aerosol to the user.

Abstract: A device component for an aerosol provision system comprises: a speaker operable to emit acoustic signals; and a controller configured to: supply to the speaker a drive signal in which is encoded payment entity information relating to a payment entity associated with a user, to cause the speaker to emit an acoustic signal carrying the payment entity information for detection by a point-of-sale payment transaction system.

Abstract: A device component for an aerosol provision system comprises: a microphone operable to detect acoustic signals; and a controller configured to: receive an acoustic signal detected by the microphone; extract data from the acoustic signal; process the extracted data to determine if the extracted data corresponds with either a locking instruction or an unlocking instruction for the aerosol generating system; and change an operational state of the aerosol provision system from an operable state to an inoperable state if correspondence with the locking instruction is found, and from an inoperable state to an operable state if correspondence with the unlocking instruction is found.

Abstract: A device component for an aerosol generating system comprises: a speaker operable to emit acoustic signals; a user input element configured to receive a user input corresponding to a control command for controlling an external electronic entity having a microphone; and a controller configured to: generate a drive signal representing the control command for the speaker; and supply the drive signal to the speaker to cause the speaker to emit an acoustic signal carrying the control command for detection by the external electronic entity.

Abstract: An electronic vapor provision system includes: a control unit configured to provide power from a battery in the control unit, and including a controller configured to control components of the system; and an aerosolizable substrate material carrying portion separably connectable to the control unit to obtain power from the battery, and including first and second electrical circuits including respectively a characteristic-carrying element and a vapor generating element. The second electrical circuit can be selectively provided with power from the battery when power is supplied to the aerosolizable substrate material carrying portion. The controller is configured to operate in a first mode in which a characteristic of the characteristic-carrying element is determined by providing power from the battery to the first electrical circuit, and in a second mode in which the vapor generating element is operated by providing power from the battery to the second electrical circuit.

Abstract: A consumable article for use with an apparatus arranged to heat aerosolizable material to volatilize at least one component of the aerosolizable material is disclosed. The consumable article has an outer shell and an inner shell within the outer shell. The inner shell contains aerosolizable material. The consumable article also has a thermally insulating layer separating the inner shell from the outer shell.

Abstract: A user feedback system for a user of a delivery device within a delivery ecosystem includes an obtaining processor adapted to obtain one or more user factors indicative of a state of the user, and an estimation processor adapted to identify a one-step or two-step correspondence between the obtained one or more user factors indicative of user state and at least a first feedback action, the feedback action being expected to alter a state of the user as indicated at least in part by the one or more user factors.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating aerosol from an aerosolizable medium, the apparatus including a housing; and a chamber for receiving an article. The article includes an aerosolizable medium; and a marker arrangement including a first marker and a second marker. The apparatus includes a sensor arrangement configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode the sensor arrangement monitors non-continuously for the presence of the first marker. In the second mode the sensor arrangement is configured to read identification information from the second marker. The sensor arrangement operates in the second mode responsive to the detection of the presence of the first marker in the first mode.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating aerosol from an aerosolizable medium, the apparatus including a housing; and a chamber for receiving an article. The article includes an aerosolizable medium; and a marker arrangement including a first marker and a second marker. The apparatus includes a sensor arrangement configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode the sensor arrangement monitors non-continuously for the presence of the first marker. In the second mode the sensor arrangement is configured to read identification information from the second marker. The sensor arrangement operates in the second mode responsive to the detection of the presence of the first marker in the first mode.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an aerosol generation system heater element is described. The aerosol generation system heater element comprising a seamless hollow tube, and the method comprises deforming a wall of a hollow tube to form the seamless hollow tube, the seamless hollow tube having a deformed wall, wherein the deformed wall of the seamless hollow tube is thinner than the wall of the hollow tube.

Abstract: An electronic vapor provision system includes: a control unit configured to provide power from a battery in the control unit, and including a controller configured to control components of the system; and an aerosolizable substrate material carrying portion separably connectable to the control unit to obtain power from the battery, and including first and second electrical circuits including respectively a characteristic-carrying element and a vapor generating element. The second electrical circuit can be selectively provided with power from the battery when power is supplied to the aerosolizable substrate material carrying portion. The controller is configured to operate in a first mode in which a characteristic of the characteristic-carrying element is determined by providing power from the battery to the first electrical circuit, and in a second mode in which the vapor generating element is operated by providing power from the battery to the second electrical circuit.

Abstract: An article for use with an apparatus for heating aerosolizable material to volatilize at least one component of the aerosolizable material includes a body of aerosolizable material; and a first wrapper around the body aerosolizable material. The first wrapper comprises heater material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field. The first wrapper comprises an outer surface and an inner surface and the first wrapper is arranged so that two opposing strips of the outer surface are joined along ends of the first wrapper or the first wrapper is arranged so that two opposing strips of the inner surface are joined along ends of the first wrapper, so as to form a closed electrical circuit of the heater material. A method of and apparatus for manufacturing an article for use with an apparatus for heating aerosolizable material to volatilize at least one component of the aerosolisable material are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an article for use with an apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The article includes a carrier having plural thermally-conductive portions, on which are locatable respective discrete quantities of smokable material. Between the portions of the carrier, the carrier is shaped to form a thermal barrier for inhibiting heat conduction from one or more of the portions of the carrier towards another of the portions of the carrier in use.

Abstract: An aerosol provision device for heating aerosolisable material to produce an aerosol, including a heating chamber configured to receive aerosolisable material having an inlet and an outlet, an inlet valve associated with the inlet, and an outlet valve associated with the outlet, the inlet valve and the outlet valves moveable from a first configuration to a second configuration responsive to a change in a property of the heating chamber, such that in the first configuration the inlet valve and the outlet valves are arranged to seal the inlet and the outlet to substantially prevent gaseous flow through the inlet and the outlet, and in the second configuration the inlet valve and the outlet valve are arranged to allow gaseous flow through the inlet and outlet.

Abstract: There can be provided an electronic nicotine delivery “END” device comprising: a wireless local area network “WLAN” or wireless telecommunications connectivity interface configured to establish a wireless data connection to a wireless local area network access point to provide data connectivity from the END device to a remote management service, and a charging connector configured to receive power input for recharging a power source of the END device. The END device also comprises circuitry configured to selectively activate the connectivity interface in response to expected or ongoing receipt of power via the charging connector.

Abstract: An aerosol provision system comprising a reservoir for aerosolisable material; a vaporizer for vaporizing aerosolisable material from the reservoir; and a sensor system, separate from the vaporizer, for detecting the temperature of the vaporizer, wherein the sensor system comprises a first resistor. The sensor system may also comprise a second resistor. Each resistor may be located on a wick from the aerosol provision system, along with the vaporizer. The sensor system may be separate from the vaporizer, in so far as each resistor from the sensor system may be physically spaced from the vaporizer, and in so far as determining the temperature of the vaporizer may be determined off data from the sensor system, as opposed to off any data from the vaporizer itself.