公开(公告)号：US20250151777A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-15

申请号：US18947730

申请日：2024-11-14

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Shaoyong YU ,  Shuzhong ZHUANG ,  Raymond W. LAU ,  Eric HAWES ,  Rebecca GRAY ,  James P. PITTMAN ,  William N. FLORY ,  Rangaraj S. SUNDAR

IPC: A24D1/20 ,  A24B3/12 ,  A24B13/02 ,  A24B15/167 ,  A24B15/40 ,  A24D1/00 ,  A24F7/02 ,  A24F40/20

Abstract: A capsule for an aerosol-generating device includes a housing and an aerosol-forming substrate. The housing defines an inlet opening, an outlet opening, and a chamber between the inlet opening and the outlet opening. The aerosol-forming substrate is in the housing. The aerosol-forming substrate includes tobacco, an encapsulated flavorant, and an aerosol-forming agent. The encapsulated flavorant includes a matrix and a flavorant in the matrix. The capsule has a resistance to draw ranging from 30 mmH2O to 130 mmH2O.

公开(公告)号：USD1074436S1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-13

申请号：US29853746

申请日：2022-09-19

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Designer： Todd M. McCandless ,  Brian M. Casey ,  Christopher L. Simpson

公开(公告)号：US12296091B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-13

申请号：US17970135

申请日：2022-10-20

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Christopher S. Tucker ,  Geoffrey Brandon Jordan ,  Barry S. Smith ,  Ali A. Rostami ,  Michael J. Mullins

IPC: A24F47/00 ,  A24F40/485 ,  A24F40/70 ,  A61M11/00 ,  A61M11/04 ,  A61M15/06 ,  H01C17/00 ,  H05B1/02 ,  H05B3/00 ,  H05B3/10 ,  H05B3/12 ,  H05B3/16 ,  H05B3/42 ,  H05B3/44 ,  A24F40/10 ,  A24F40/40 ,  A24F40/44 ,  A61M15/00 ,  A61M16/00 ,  A61M21/00

Abstract: In one embodiment, the electronic vaping device includes a cartridge and a battery section. The cartridge and the battery section are connectable so as to define an air inlet between a portion of the cartridge and a portion of the battery section.

公开(公告)号：US12290102B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-06

申请号：US18466367

申请日：2023-09-13

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Ali A. Rostami

IPC: A24F40/44 ,  A24F40/10 ,  A24F40/46 ,  H05B1/02 ,  H05B3/03

Abstract: A vaporizer assembly for an e-vaping device includes a heater coil structure, a set of electrical lead structures coupled to opposite ends of the heater coil structure, and a non-conductive connector structure connected to each of the electrical lead structures, such that the electrical lead structures are coupled together independently of the heater coil structure. The vaporizer assembly may contact a dispensing interface structure through the heater coil structure. The vaporizer assembly may heat pre-vapor formulation drawn from a reservoir by the dispensing interface. The heater coil structure may define a surface, and the vaporizer assembly may apply a mechanical force to the dispensing interface structure, such that the heater coil structure is in compression with the dispensing interface structure and the heater coil structure surface is substantially flush with a surface of the dispensing interface structure. The heater coil structure may define a three-dimensional surface.

公开(公告)号：US12286257B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US18437670

申请日：2024-02-09

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Jarrod W. Chalkley ,  James D. Evans ,  Thien Hoang Nguyen ,  Patrick S. McElhinney

IPC: B65B65/08 ,  B29C65/00 ,  B29C65/18 ,  B29C65/30 ,  B29C65/74 ,  B29C65/78 ,  B65B9/20 ,  B65B9/207 ,  B65B51/30 ,  B65B61/06 ,  B65B61/28 ,  B29L31/00 ,  B65B29/00 ,  B65B57/14

Abstract: A fin sealer and method to seal a radially outwardly directed fin of a tubular web structure by directing the fin through a nip between a first and a second fin sealing rollers while communicating heat to the fin through at least one of the fin sealing rollers is provided. The fin sealer is configured to maintain a nominal face-to-face relation between an outer annulus of the first fin sealing roller and an outer annulus of the second fin sealing roller with a flexible connection between a hub element of the second fin sealing roller with the outer annulus of the second fin sealing roller.

公开(公告)号：US20250120428A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-17

申请号：US18999836

申请日：2024-12-23

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Dwight D. WILLIAMS ,  Charles David HOWE

IPC: A24C5/18 ,  A24C1/02

Abstract: The method includes transporting tobacco into and through a shaft of a tongue of a compression box, and compressing the tobacco into a tobacco rod as the tobacco is transported through the compression box, the compression box including a first plate, a first portion of the first plate being formed over an upper portion of the shaft, the first portion running along a majority of a longitudinal length of the shaft.

公开(公告)号：US12263981B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US18407285

申请日：2024-01-08

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Gregory L. Nelson ,  Christopher Ryan Newcomb ,  James D. Evans ,  Thien Nguyen ,  Jarrod W. Chalkley ,  Robert V. Powell

IPC: B65B9/00 ,  A24F23/02 ,  B65B1/10 ,  B65B9/04 ,  B65B29/00 ,  B65B41/16 ,  B65B43/04 ,  B65B61/10 ,  B65B61/28

Abstract: In an example embodiment, an apparatus for making pouch products includes a conveyor system. The conveyor system includes a first receiving location along a path of the conveyor system, and a dosing location along the path of the conveyor system. The apparatus also includes a first material dispensing station configured to transfer a first material to the first receiving location. The first material includes a first elastic layer and a first support layer. The first material dispensing station includes a dispenser roller configured to hold a roll of the first material, a plurality of rollers configured to convey the first material from the dispenser roller to the first receiving location, and a stripper plate configured remove at least a portion of the first support layer from a portion of the first elastic layer.

公开(公告)号：US20250100734A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18971749

申请日：2024-12-06

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Jarrod W. CHALKLEY ,  Robert POWELL ,  Christopher R. NEWCOMB ,  Jeremy STRAIGHT ,  Isaac J. MCGILL ,  James David EVANS ,  Patrick MCELHINNEY

IPC: B65B55/24 ,  B08B1/30 ,  B08B1/32 ,  B65B9/04 ,  B65B47/10 ,  B65B61/06

Abstract: A cleaner assembly for an apparatus for making pouch products includes a cleaner roller and a poker roller. The cleaner roller may counter rotate with a rotatable drum of the apparatus, in contact with an upper surface of a first elastic layer on the rotatable drum, and at a greater tangential speed than at least one surface of an outer circumferential surface of the rotatable drum or an upper surface of the first elastic layer. The poker roller includes projections that are each configured to extend into one or more divots of the rotatable drum. The poker roller may counter rotate with the rotatable drum and at a same tangential speed as the at least one surface such that the projections extend into and out of separate, respective divots of the rotatable drum based on the counter rotation of the poker roller and the rotatable drum.

公开(公告)号：US20250099697A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18973350

申请日：2024-12-09

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Rui Nuno BATISTA ,  Laurent MANCA

IPC: A61M15/06 ,  A24F40/10 ,  A24F40/40 ,  A24F40/42 ,  A24F40/46 ,  A24F40/485 ,  F22B1/28

Abstract: An electrically heated aerosol-generating device is configured for use with a consumable cartridge including a storage portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate and having a fluid permeable internal surface surrounding an open-ended passage extending through the cartridge. The device includes a housing having a cavity for receiving the cartridge and a heater assembly positioned in the cavity. The heater assembly includes an electrically conductive hollow shaft portion connected to the housing and an electric heater positioned along the hollow shaft portion and having at least one heating element for heating the aerosol-forming substrate. The hollow shaft portion defines an airflow passage forming part of an airflow pathway through the device and is arranged to extend into the open-ended passage of the cartridge. The hollow shaft portion comprises a plurality of apertures, and the heating element is one or more narrow regions of the hollow shaft portion between adjacent apertures.

公开(公告)号：US20250098788A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-27

申请号：US18973399

申请日：2024-12-09

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Stephane BILAT

IPC: A24F40/53 ,  A24B15/167 ,  A24D1/20 ,  A24F40/10 ,  A24F40/20 ,  A24F40/40 ,  G01N27/12 ,  H01R31/08 ,  H05K7/02

Abstract: The method includes first arranging pairs of conductors on an aerosol-generating device, and second arranging conductive portions in a physical pattern on a consumable, the physical pattern being configured to electrically connect to at least one first subset of the pairs of conductors to complete at least one first circuit, of a plurality of circuits, that identifies the consumable, the plurality of circuits including the conductive portions and the pairs of conductors.