# US 11,439,778 B2 · Aerosol provision device with first and second side-by-side sections > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,439,778 B2 - Document ID: US11439778B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/758,977 - Filed: 2018-10-24 - Published: 2021-06-17 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2017-10-24 - Assignees: Nicoventures Trading Limited - Applicants: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited - Inventors: Ugurhan Yilmaz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11439778B2 ## CPC - A61M 15/06: Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes - A24F 40/30: Devices using two or more structurally separated inhalable precursors, e.g. using two liquid precursors in two cartridges - A24F 40/42: Cartridges or containers for inhalable precursors - A24F 40/44: Wicks - A24F 40/46: Shape or structure of electric heating means - A24F 40/485: Valves; Apertures - A61M 11/042: {electrical} - A61M 15/0003: {with means for dispensing more than one drug} - A61M 15/0023: {retractable} - A24F 40/10: Devices using liquid inhalable precursors - A24F 40/20: Devices using solid inhalable precursors - A61M 2016/0024: {with an on-off output signal, e.g. from a switch} - A61M 2205/8206: battery-operated - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} - A24F: SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES (inhaling appliances for medical purposes, shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes A61M15/06) ## Abstract An aerosol provision device includes a first section for containing an aerosolizable substance from which a flow of aerosol can be generated; and a second section for containing a material. In use, a flow of aerosol generated from aerosolizable substance in the first section flows through material in the second section before being inhaled by a user. The first section and the second section are located in a side-by-side arrangement in the device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An aerosol provision device comprising: a first section for containing an aerosolizable substance from which a flow of aerosol can be generated; and a second section for containing a material; wherein, in use, a flow of aerosol generated from the aerosolizable substance in the first section flows through material in the second section before being inhaled by a user; and wherein the first section and the second section are located in a side-by-side arrangement in the aerosol provision device with respect to the longitudinal axis of the device and, wherein in use, the flow of aerosol generated in the first section flows in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the device to thereby exit the first section into the second section. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, wherein the first section and the second section are located such that a side of the first section is substantially co-located with a side of the second section, and the side of the first section and the side of the second section are substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, wherein the first section comprises a heating arrangement for generating aerosol from the aerosolizable substance; and in use, the heating arrangement is adjacent to the second section and is arranged to heat the material in the second section. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The aerosol provision device according to claim 3, wherein the heating arrangement comprises at least a first heating element and a second heating element. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The aerosol provision device according to claim 4, wherein the first heating element and the second heating element are at least one of: arranged in a common plane and at substantially the same distance from the second section; resistive heating coils; substantially linear resistive heating coils; bottom vertical coils or spiral coils; controllable independently of each other; or one of the first heating element or the second heating element may be activated when the other of the first heating element or the second heating element is inactive. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, wherein the aerosolizable substance is a liquid and the first section comprises a liquid reservoir, and the heating arrangement comprises a wick arrangement for transporting the liquid from the liquid reservoir to the first heating element and to the second heating element, wherein the wick arrangement comprises a first wick for transporting the liquid from the liquid reservoir to the first heating element and a second wick for transporting the liquid from the liquid reservoir to the second heating element. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of: the first section is configured such that in use air enters the aerosol provision device into the first section in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aerosol provision device, or the second section is configured such that, in use, aerosol flows from a distal end to a proximal end of the second section through the material in a direction which is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the aerosol provision device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, wherein the second section comprises an opening in a first side wall, and a first barrier is arranged at the opening, and the first barrier is porous to the flow of the aerosol and prevents the material from exiting the second section through the opening, wherein the aerosol provision device is configured such that the first side wall is located adjacent to the first section in use such that the aerosol generated from the first section can enter the second section through the opening, and wherein at least one of: the second section comprises: an upper portion, a lower portion, and a second barrier, wherein the lower portion is for receiving the material, and the second barrier is porous to the flow of the aerosol and is arranged to prevent the material in the lower portion from exiting the lower portion into the upper portion; the upper portion comprises a second opening towards a proximal end of the second section, and a third barrier that is porous to the flow of the aerosol is arranged towards the second opening to prevent the material from exiting the second opening; or at least one of the first barrier, the second barrier, or the third barrier is a mesh. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, wherein the first section and the second section are provided as separate cartridges. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, further comprising a mouthpiece which is integral with the second section. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The aerosol provision device according to claim 10, further comprising a mouthpiece which is integral with the second section, wherein the second section and the mouthpiece define a slot for receiving the first section in use. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The aerosol provision device according to claim 9, further comprising a device body, wherein the first section and the second section are configured to be independently releasably attachable to the device body. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, wherein first section is a liquid cartridge and the second section is a tobacco cartridge for receiving a material comprising tobacco. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The aerosol provision device according to claim 1, wherein the first section comprises a first reservoir for receiving a first aerosolizable substance and a second reservoir for receiving a second aerosolizable substance. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) A first cartridge for the aerosol provision device according to claim 1, the first cartridge comprising the first section for containing the aerosolizable substance and being releasably connectable to the aerosol provision device, wherein the first cartridge is configured such that, in use, aerosol exits the first section into the second section in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aerosol provision device. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The first cartridge according to claim 15, wherein the first cartridge comprises a reservoir for containing an aerosolizable substance and a heating arrangement for generating aerosol from the aerosolizable substance; wherein, when in use in the aerosol provision device, the heating arrangement is adjacent to the second section and is arranged to heat the material in the second section. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The first cartridge according to claim 16, wherein the heating arrangement comprises at least a first heating element and a second heating element. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The first cartridge according to claim 17, wherein at least one of: the first heating element and the second heating element are arranged in a common plane and the first heating element and the second heating element are arranged at substantially the same distance from the second section; the first heating element and the second heating element are resistive heating coils; the first heating element and the second heating element are substantially linear resistive heating coils; the first heating element and the second heating element are bottom vertical coils or spiral coils; the first heating element and the second heating element are bottom vertical coils or spiral coils; the first heating element and the second heating element are controllable independently of each other; or one of the first heating element or the second heating element may be activated when the other of the first heating element or the second heating element is inactive. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The first cartridge according to claim 15, wherein the aerosolizable substance is a liquid and the first cartridge comprises a liquid reservoir, and the heating arrangement comprises a wick arrangement for transporting the liquid from the liquid reservoir to the first heating element and to the second heating element. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The first cartridge according to claim 19, wherein the wick arrangement comprises a first wick for transporting the liquid from the liquid reservoir to the first heating element and a second wick for transporting the liquid from the liquid reservoir to the second heating element. ### Claim 21 (depends on 15) The first cartridge according to claim 15, wherein the first cartridge is configured such that, in use, air enters the aerosol provision device into the first cartridge in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aerosol provision device. ### Claim 22 (depends on 1) A cartridge for the aerosol provision device according to claim 1, the cartridge comprising the second section for containing the material and being releasably connectable to the aerosol provision device, wherein aerosol generated by the first section enters the second section in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the device. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The cartridge according to claim 22, wherein the cartridge is configured such that in use aerosol flows from a distal end to a proximal end of the cartridge through the material in a direction which is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the aerosol provision device. ### Claim 24 (depends on 22) The cartridge according to claim 22, wherein the cartridge comprises an opening in a first side wall, and a first barrier is arranged at the opening, and the first barrier is porous to the flow of aerosol and prevents the material from exiting the cartridge through the opening, wherein the aerosol provision device is configured such that the first side wall is located adjacent to the first section in use such that aerosol generated from the first section can enter the cartridge through the opening. ### Claim 25 (depends on 24) The cartridge according to claim 24, wherein: the cartridge comprises: an upper portion, a lower portion, and a second barrier, and at least one of: the lower portion is for receiving the material, and the second barrier is porous to the flow of aerosol and is arranged to prevent the material in the lower portion from exiting the lower portion into the upper portion, the upper portion comprises a second opening towards a proximal end of the second section, and a third barrier that is porous to the flow of aerosol is arranged towards the second opening to prevent the material from exiting the second opening, or at least one of the first barrier, the second barrier, or the third barrier is a mesh. ### Claim 26 (depends on 22) The cartridge according to claim 22, further comprising a mouthpiece which is integral with the cartridge. ### Claim 27 (depends on 26) The cartridge according to claim 26, wherein the second section and the mouthpiece define a slot for receiving another cartridge in use, the another cartridge comprising the first section for containing the aerosolizable substance and being releasably connectable to the aerosol provision device. ### Claim 28 (depends on 22) The cartridge according to claim 22, wherein the cartridge is for containing a tobacco material.