Vaporizing devices and methods for delivering a compound using the same
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorYossef Raichman
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Abstract
A method of treating disorders in a human or animal subject may include heating a material containing a compound to a first temperature to form a heated volume of the material. The method may additionally include heating the heated volume to a higher second temperature to form a dose of vapor including the compound. The method may also include administering the dose of vapor to the subject to treat disorders such as pain. The method may further include pre-heating the material to a preliminary temperature prior to the heating to the first temperature. The heating and pre-heating may be performed with a capsule including two covering layers, each including an electrically conductive material, configured to hold the material therebetween and to generate heat by resistive heating.
Claims11
A method of producing a plant material vapor from a plant material comprising a temperature-sensitive component at a first concentration, the method comprising:
- inserting a capsule into a vaporizing unit, the capsule including two planar heaters containing the plant material therebetween, the vaporizing unit defining a side opening, the inserting of the capsule being from an exterior of the vaporizing unit to an interior of the vaporizing unit via the side opening;
- heating an initial volume of the plant material between the two planar heaters of the capsule to a first temperature to form a heated volume of the plant material in which the first concentration of the temperature-sensitive component is reduced relative to the initial volume;
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- heating the heated volume of the plant material between the two planar heaters of the capsule to a second temperature to form the plant material vapor comprising the temperature-sensitive component, each of the two planar heaters defining a plurality of holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.