Aerosol generating system with prevention of condensate leakage
AssigneePhilip Morris Products S.A.
InventorsMichel Thorens, Jean-Marc Flick, Olivier Yves Cochand, Flavien Dubief
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Abstract
An aerosol-generating system for heating a liquid aerosol-forming substrate is provided, the aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-forming chamber; and leakage prevention cavity configured to prevent or reduce leakage of liquid aerosol condensate from the aerosol-generating system, the cavity being in a wall of the aerosol-forming chamber and being configured to collect liquid condensate formed from the aerosol-forming substrate, and in which the cavity is in a form of an annular groove.
Claims14
An aerosol-generating system for heating a liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the aerosol-generating system comprising:
- an aerosol-forming chamber;
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- leakage prevention means configured to prevent or reduce leakage of liquid aerosol condensate from the aerosol-generating system, wherein the leakage prevention means comprises a cavity in a wall of the aerosol-forming chamber configured to collect liquid condensate formed from the aerosol-forming substrate, and wherein the cavity is in a form of an annular groove,
- wherein the cavity has an annular cross-sectional width of between 0.5 millimetres and 1 millimetre, and
- wherein the cavity has a depth of between 1 millimetre and 1 centimetre.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.