Abstract: A vapor-generating system includes a cartridge, a vapor-generating device and a piercing element. The cartridge includes a cartridge housing configured to hold a solid vapor-forming substrate within the cartridge housing interior, a liquid storage housing configured to hold a liquid vapor-forming substrate within the liquid storage housing interior, and a frangible seal on the liquid storage housing. The vapor-generating device includes a device housing at least partially defining a cavity, an electric heater, and a power supply. The piercing element is configured to pierce the frangible seal of the cartridge to expose the liquid storage housing interior to be in fluid communication with the electric heater based on the vapor-generating device coupling with the cartridge such that the device housing at least partially receives the cartridge into the cavity. The electric heater is located externally from the piercing element.

Abstract: An electrically operated aerosol generating system may include a storage portion configured to store an aerosol forming substrate, at least one heating element configured to heat the aerosol forming substrate, a sensor configured to detect an activation of the system, a clock, and electric circuitry connected to the sensor. A usage parameter associated with operation of the system may be measured and compared, to a threshold value. A usage profile of the system may be determined based on the comparison. Such operations may be repeated at different times of day. An operating mode of the system may be selectively executed based on the determined usage profile associated with the current time of day. A monitoring procedure may be ended when the measured usage parameter exceeds a threshold value, and the duration of the monitoring procedure may be compared to a threshold duration to determine the usage profile.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating system includes a plurality of cartridges and an aerosol-generating device. At least one cartridge of the plurality of cartridges includes a first aerosol-forming substrate, the plurality of cartridges are configured for selective connection to each other to form a cartridge assembly. The aerosol-generating device includes a storage including a second aerosol-forming substrate in the storage, an electric heater configured to heat a portion of the second aerosol-forming substrate from the storage section during use of the aerosol-generating system, and a power supply housing, the power supply housing including a power supply and a controller, the controller configured to control a supply of electrical power from the power supply to the electric heater, the aerosol-generating device being configured to receive the cartridge assembly at a downstream end of the aerosol-generating device.

Abstract: The method includes first arranging a liquid storage portion to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, second arranging a wick and an aerosol generator to communicate the liquid aerosol-forming substrate from the liquid storage portion and at least partially vaporize the liquid aerosol-forming substrate, third arranging a tilt sensor to sense an angle of orientation value of the liquid storage portion, and configuring at least one processor of an electrical circuit to monitor the angle of orientation value as sensed by the tilt sensor to determine a depletion value of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate based at least in part on the angle of orientation value, while the aerosol-generating device is in any physical orientation.

Abstract: A heating chamber for an aerosol generation device includes a chamber side wall and a chamber base. The chamber side wall and chamber base together define an interior volume of the heating chamber. A heater is provided in thermal engagement with the chamber side wall. An insulating member includes an insulating side wall and an insulating base, and is arranged so that a part of the heating chamber including the chamber base is nested inside the insulating member. There is also disclosed an aerosol generation device including an electrical power source, an outer casing, the heating chamber and control circuitry arranged to control the supply of electrical power from the electrical power source to the heater.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device has a heating chamber for receiving a substrate carrier containing an aerosol substrate. The heating chamber includes an open first end, a chamber side wall, and a base at a second end of the chamber side wall opposite the open first end. The base includes a platform extending from a portion of the base towards the open first end from an interior surface of the base. The platform is formed of a series of protrusions positioned at an edge of the base.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device has a heating chamber for receiving a substrate carrier containing an aerosol substrate. The heating chamber includes a tubular side wall having an open first end, wherein the tubular side wall has a thickness of 90 ?m or less. An aerosol generation device includes the heating chamber, an electrical power source, a heater arranged to supply heat to the heating chamber, and control circuitry configured to control the supply of electrical power from the electrical power source to the heater.

Abstract: A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system includes a liquid storage portion configured to store a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The liquid storage portion includes one or more flexible walls and is configured to change at least one of the shape and the size of the liquid storage portion upon a change of the volume of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the liquid storage portion. The cartridge includes a sensor configured to detect data of a physical property. The data relates to at least one of a corresponding shape and a corresponding size of the liquid storage portion so that the volume of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the liquid storage portion is determinable from the measured data.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device has a heating chamber for receiving a substrate carrier containing an aerosol substrate. The heating chamber includes an open end through which the substrate carrier is insertable in a direction along a length of the heating chamber. A tubular wall defines an interior volume of the heating chamber and a plurality of engagement elements are each formed from a portion of the tubular wall. Each of the plurality of engagement elements is arranged to extend from an interior surface of the tubular wall at a different location around the tubular wall such that a cross sectional area of the interior volume of the heating chamber is reduced for at least a portion of the length of the heating chamber. These engagement elements serve to grip or to compress the substrate carrier in the heating chamber.

Abstract: A heatable aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol is provided, the article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate including a plurality of strips of non-tobacco material assembled to form a rod, the strips of non-tobacco material including and being configured to release at least one aerosol former, each strip of the plurality of strips having an equivalent diameter of at least about 0.1 millimetre, the strips of the plurality of strips being assembled such that the strips extend in a longitudinal direction, and a wrapper circumscribing the strips; a mouthpiece; and a hollow tubular element arranged between the rod of aerosol-generating substrate and the mouthpiece. An aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating article and an aerosol-generating device is also provided.

Abstract: An electrically operated aerosol generating system may include a storage portion configured to store an aerosol forming substrate, at least one heating element configured to heat the aerosol forming substrate, a sensor configured to detect an activation of the system, a clock, and electric circuitry connected to the sensor. A usage parameter associated with operation of the system may be measured and compared, to a threshold value. A usage profile of the system may be determined based on the comparison. Such operations may be repeated at different times of day. An operating mode of the system may be selectively executed based on the determined usage profile associated with the current time of day. A monitoring procedure may be ended when the measured usage parameter exceeds a threshold value, and the duration of the monitoring procedure may be compared to a threshold duration to determine the usage profile.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating system includes a plurality of cartridges and an aerosol-generating device. At least one cartridge of the plurality of cartridges includes a first aerosol-forming substrate, the plurality of cartridges are configured for selective connection to each other to form a cartridge assembly. The aerosol-generating device includes a storage including a second aerosol-forming substrate in the storage, an electric heater configured to heat a portion of the second aerosol-forming substrate from the storage section during use of the aerosol-generating system, and a power supply housing, the power supply housing including a power supply and a controller, the controller configured to control a supply of electrical power from the power supply to the electric heater, the aerosol-generating device being configured to receive the cartridge assembly at a downstream end of the aerosol-generating device.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device comprises a device housing comprising a first receiving chamber configured to receive and accommodate a first consumable and a second receiving chamber configured to receive and accommodate a second consumable. The device further comprises a power source in an internal space defined by the device housing and a controller configured to control aerosolization of an aerosol-forming substrate in a consumable in one of the first receiving chamber and in the second receiving chamber. At least the second receiving chamber includes electrical contacts configured to be detachably connected to a battery based on the separate power source being in the second receiving chamber such that the electrical contacts provide additional power from the separate power source to the aerosol-generating device.

Abstract: A heated aerosol-generating article may include a rod of aerosol-generating substrate including: a first plug of homogenized tobacco material; and a second plug of homogenized tobacco material. The first plug and the second plug may be coaxially aligned. The first plug may be provided downstream of the second plug. The first plug and the second plug may differ from each other in at least one property of the homogenized tobacco material such that upon heating of the aerosol-generating substrate, the first plug releases aerosol after a shorter time than the second plug.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device has a heating chamber for receiving a substrate carrier containing an aerosol substrate. The heating chamber includes a first open end; a base; and a side wall between the open end and the base. The base is connected to the side wall and provides structural support to the side wall. The side wall has a first thickness and the base has a second thickness greater than the first thickness.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device has a heating chamber for receiving a substrate carrier containing an aerosol substrate. The heating chamber includes an open first end, a chamber side wall, and a base at a second end of the chamber side wall opposite the open first end, wherein the base includes a platform extending from a portion of the base towards the open end from an interior surface of the base.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an aerosol-generating device (1) for generating an aerosol by inductively heating an aerosol-forming substrate (30). The device comprises a device housing (10) including a heating chamber (16) for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate to be heated and an induction source for generating an alternating electromagnetic field within the heating chamber. The device further comprises a reusable susceptor (20) configured to get into removable contact with the aerosol-forming substrate for heating the substrate. The susceptor is displaceable between an operation position defined by the susceptor being arranged within the heating chamber (16), and a preparation position defined by the susceptor being arranged at least partially outside of the heating chamber. The invention further relates to aerosol-generating system comprising an aerosol-generating device according to invention and an aerosol-generating article including aerosol-forming substrate to be heated.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating system is provided, including: an aerosol-generating article including an aerosol-forming substrate, and an aerosol-generating device having a housing, a heating chamber defining a heating zone and sized to receive the substrate therein, an induction element around the zone, a power supply, and a controller connected to the element to provide an alternating electric current to the element to generate an alternating magnetic field within the zone, the element being controlled to sequentially provide a first alternating magnetic field having a first frequency for a first period of time followed by a second alternating magnetic field having a second frequency for a second period of time, the element being first and second coils, the first and the second coils being actuatable to provide the first and the second fields, respectively, and the article and the chamber being arranged so the article is partially received within the chamber.

Abstract: A heatable aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol is provided, the article including: a rod of aerosol-generating substrate including from about 20 to about 200 strands of non-tobacco material including and configured to release at least one aerosol former, each strand having an equivalent diameter of at least about 0.1 millimetre, the strands being assembled such that the strands extend in a longitudinal direction; and a wrapper circumscribing the strands. A method of making a rod for an aerosol-generating substrate in an aerosol-generating article, and a rod for an aerosol-generating substrate in an aerosol-generating article, are also provided.

Abstract: The e-vaping element includes a reservoir configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, a heater configured to receive the liquid aerosol-forming substrate from the reservoir, one or more capillary wicks configured to transfer the liquid aerosol-forming substrate from the reservoir to the heater, and a first temperature sensor configured to sense at least one first temperature of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the reservoir, the first temperature sensor and the heater being spaced apart from each other and being on opposite ends of the reservoir.