E-vapor device including heater structure with recessed shell layer
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorPeter Lipowicz
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Abstract
An e-vapor device may include a pre-vapor sector and a heater structure arranged in thermal contact with the pre-vapor sector. The pre-vapor sector is configured to hold and dispense a pre-vapor formulation. The heater structure includes a base wire and a shell layer coating the base wire. The base wire is insulated from the shell layer. The shell layer includes at least one recessed portion between a first unrecessed portion and a second unrecessed portion. The at least one recessed portion is a thinner section of the shell layer that is configured to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation to generate a vapor. As a result of the heater design, the heater structure is stiffer and more robust than other related heaters in the art, thus allowing more options for its implementation.
Claims17
An e-vapor device, comprising:
- a pre-vapor sector configured to hold and dispense a pre-vapor formulation;
- a heater structure arranged in thermal contact with the pre-vapor sector, the heater structure including a base wire and a shell layer coating the base wire, the base wire being insulated from the shell layer, the shell layer including at least one recessed portion between a first unrecessed portion and a second unrecessed portion, the at least one recessed portion being a thinner section of the shell layer that is configured to vaporize the pre-vapor formulation to generate a vapor;
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- a power source including opposite terminals connected to the first unrecessed portion and the second unrecessed portion of the shell layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.